Background
MENDONÇA, Renato Firmino Maia de was born on December 23, 1912 in Pilar, Alagôas, Brazil.
foreign service officer writer
MENDONÇA, Renato Firmino Maia de was born on December 23, 1912 in Pilar, Alagôas, Brazil.
Graduated Colégio Pedro II, Rio de Janeiro, 1931. Doctor of Law, University do Brasil, 1935.
Professor of Portuguese language, Colégio Pedro II, 1933-1937. Assistant, Brazilian delegation to Chaco peace conference, 1935. Secretary, foreign office study commission for Inter-American Peace Conference, Buenos Aires, 1936.
Representative of foreign office, Brazilian geography council. Chargé d’affaires in Mexico, 1941. Professor, of Portuguese lang. and Brazilian literature, summer school and school of philosophy and letters, University Nacional de México, 1942-1944.
Chief, sect, of internat, eçon. affairs, ministry of foreign affairs, 1945. Brazilian consul, Oporto, Portugal, 1946.
Member: P.E.N. Club, Institute de Coimbra, International Institute of Afro-American Studies, Society Brasileira de Geografía.