10 Facts About Gilberto Freyre

Gilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist, congressman born in Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil.

Gilberto Freyre is commonly associated with other major Brazilian cultural interpreters of the first half of the 20th century, such as Sergio Buarque de Holanda and Caio Prado Junior.

Gilberto Freyre had an internationalist academic career, having studied at Baylor University, Texas from the age of eighteen and then at Columbia University, where he got his master's degree under the tutelage of William Shepperd.

At Columbia, Gilberto Freyre was a student of the anthropologist Franz Boas.

Gilberto Freyre went first to Portugal and then to the US, where he worked as Visiting Professor at Stanford.

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At various times, Gilberto Freyre served as director of the newspapers A Provincia and Diario de Pernambuco.

In 1962, Gilberto Freyre was awarded the Premio Machado de Assis by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of Brazilian literature.

Gilberto Freyre supported Portugal's Salazar government in the 1950s, and after 1964, defended the military dictatorship of Brazil's Humberto Castelo Branco.

Gilberto Freyre is considered to be the "father" of lusotropicalism: the theory whereby miscegenation had been a positive force in Brazil.

Gilberto Freyre wrote this long poem inspired by his first visit to Salvador.