Background
AZEVEDO, Raul de was born on February 3, 1875 in Sao Luis, Maranháo, Brazil.
AZEVEDO, Raul de was born on February 3, 1875 in Sao Luis, Maranháo, Brazil.
Educated in Pará and Rio de Janeiro.
Director Amazonas public library. Postmaster general in Amazonas and Acre, 1910, in Paraná, 1921. Consul for Chile in Amazonas.
Founder, A Gazeta Postal, Belem, Pará. Editor, A Provincia do Pará. Founder and director in Amazonas, O Rio Negro, O Globo, A Fólha do Amazonas.
Correspondent for Jornal do Comercio. Regional director, mail and telegraph service in Juiz de Fora, 1932, Sao Paulo, 1934, Rio de Janeiro, 1934. Director, review Aspectos.
Contributor, review Ocidente, of Portugal.
Member efficiency commission, ministry of highways, 1938, pres, of the commission since 1941. Member: Academy Amazonense de Letras, Federagáo das Academias de Letras do Brasil (see.), Associagáo Brasileira de Imprensa, P.E.N. Club (director), Institute de Coimbra (Portugal), Society de Geografía (Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon), Institute Histórico e Geográfico do Espirito Santo, Centro Carioca.
