Alexandre Herculano: o velho lobo intelectual de Portugal

Abstract

Alexandre Herculano was an important personality in Portugal History. At first place like a historian, collecting materials that contained the nation history and supplied like a study to preservation and divulgation the glorious past. Like intellectual, he engaged in politics and social subjects to benefit the portuguese nation. He wrote and published important articles at the principal journals and magazines in the nineteenth century, his personality is like intellectual. Like intellectual, he denounced and warned people about their rights and duties like portuguese citizens. He had great preoccupation about education in Portugal, because Herculano considered it in a low degree in comparison with other european countries. The proposal of this work is to describe Alexandre Herculano like intellectual in Portugal