Education
Ghent University.
Ghent University.
Forced into exile in 1911 following a crackdown on such activity, he feld to Belgium where he continued his studies at Ghent University and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. The journal that he founded, Alma Portuguesa, was an early basis for integralist development and he produced it in exile until he was amnestied in 1916. Whilst in exile Almeida Braga was also involved in translating Portuguese language literature into French, including some of the works of Gil Vicente.
Although a prolific writer he was not a main leader of the integralist movement and spent much of the 1920s out of Portugal, notably in Brazil.
In 1932, by then settled back in Portugal, he joined with José Hipólito Raposo in launching the journal o Lusitano as an attempt to redefine their older ideas in the Portugal of António de Oliveira Salazar. The initiative was not a success.
Born in Braga, Almeida Braga first came to politics whilst a student at the University of Coimbra where he was active in the cause of monarchism. Whilst there his writings found an audience and helped to bring about the development of Brazilian As one of the group"s leading thinkers he set out to convert Portugal"s elite to the new, somewhat Maurrasian, political ideology, particularly focusing on the young in their quest for support.