Túmulo de Alexandre Herculano no Mosteiro dos Jerônimos - Fragmentos da História n°28

Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho Araújo was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on March 28, 1810. He was a Portuguese writer, historian, journalist, and one of the leading authors of Romanticism in Portugal, alongside Almeida Garrett and Antônio Feliciano de Castilho. Of humble origins, he studied at the College of the Congregation of the Oratory between 1820 and 1825. He did not attend university. In 1830 he took a course in Commerce and later a course in Diplomatics at the Torre do Tombo (National Archives of Portugal). He studied French, English, and German. He wrote poetry, but it was with short stories and historical novels (a genre he created in Portugal) that he became famous. His work, with neoclassical characteristics, was one of the most important representations of Romanticism in Portugal. Alexandre Herculano died in Val-de-Lobos, Santarém, on September 13, 1877. His remains are buried in the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon.