José Hermano Saraiva
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Leiria
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), is a Portuguese
Portugal
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historian
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and jurist
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. He is most known as a television personality in Portugal, having been the author and presenter of several documentary series of historical divulgation in the last decades.
Biography
Hermano Saraiva was a professor of lawLaw
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and business
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management
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. He was Minister of Education
Education minister
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of Portugal between 1968 and 1970 and ambassador
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to Brazil
Brazil
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between 1972 and 1974. He lectured in the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Política Ultramarina at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, and in private teaching institutes.
Saraiva is most famous in Portugal, but also among Portuguese communities around the world, on account of his television programs on the History of Portugal
History of Portugal
The history of Portugal, a European and an Atlantic nation, dates back to the Early Middle Ages. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it ascended to the status of a world power during Europe's "Age of Discovery" as it built up a vast empire including possessions in South America, Africa, Asia and...
, broadcast by RTP
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. He is a member of the Sciences Academy of Lisbon
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, Portuguese Academy of History and São Paulo Historical Institute in Brazil.
Hermano Saraiva was distinguished with the Grã-Cruz da Ordem da Instrução Pública, the Grã-Cruz da Ordem do Barão do Rio Branco of Brazil
Brazil
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, the Grã-Cruz da Ordem do Mérito do Trabalho and the Comendador da Real Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa.
His supporters point out his qualities as a television communicator and of spreader of the History of Portugal to the least instructed people in the country and to the Portuguese communities outside Portugal.
Television shows
- O Tempo e a Alma (RTPRádio e Televisão de PortugalRádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....
) - A Alma e a Gente (RTPRádio e Televisão de PortugalRádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....
) - Horizontes da MemóriaHorizontes da MemóriaHorizontes da Memória is a Portuguese historical documentary television series about the History of Portugal. As of 2011, it airs on RTP Memória....
(RTPRádio e Televisão de PortugalRádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....
)
Personal
Hermano Saraiva is the third son of six from José Leonardo Venâncio Saraiva (born 1 April 1881, erudite and well known professor, Mayor of Leiria and Head Master of Liceu Passos Manuel in LisbonLisbon
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) and wife Maria da Ressurreição Baptista Saraiva. Amongst his siblings is António José Saraiva, a known investigator in the area of literature
Literature
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, and his nephew José António Saraiva
José Antônio Saraiva
José Antônio Saraiva, also known as Counsellor Saraiva , was a politician, diplomat and lawyer during the period of the Empire of Brazil ....
worked as a journalist
Journalist
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and architect
Architect
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. One of his maternal uncle
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s was the last living Portuguese
Portuguese people
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survivor of the First World War
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Saraiva married Maria de Lourdes de Bettencourt de Sá Nogueira (born 16 May 1918), daughter of Rodrigo de Sá Nogueira (born 3 December 1892, a college
College
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professor
Professor
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and great-nephew of Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquess of Sá da Bandeira) and wife Maria Luísa Rodrigues de Bettencourt (died 20 November 1915), fathering five children.