Brazilian historian born in Ceará-Mirim, Rio Grande do Norte, with a positivist background, considered more a competent annotator, with literary taste and correctness of language, than a creator of story. Son of Augusto Carlos de Amorim Garcia and Maria Augusta de Amorim Garcia, he intended to follow the career of arms and attended the Military College of Ceará and the Military School of Praia Vermelha, in Rio de January. However, he ended up being dismissed and returned to the Northeast, enrolled at the Recife Faculty of Law, from which he left, bachelor and doctoral (1908).
While still a student, he collaborated with the newspaper Estado de Pernambuco and the magazine Cultura Acadêmico and later taught History, Geography, French and Portuguese at Colégios Wolf and Santa Margarida, in Pernambuco. After the essay Names of birds in the Tupi language (1913), he edited two years later, Dictionary of Brazilianisms (1915), for which he gathered information for about 15 years.
Soon after, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he became friends with the Count of Afonso Celso, Américo Lacombe, Capistrano de Abreu and Hélio Viana. He was an advisor, librarian and became an outstanding member of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (1921), while collaborating with various newspapers, magazines and bulletins published by institutions cultural. His most influential work was the 3rd annotated edition of Varnhagen's General History of Brazil, in five volumes (1927-1936), a work shared with Capistrano de Abreu.
He was appointed director of the Museu Histórico Nacional (1930), replacing Gustavo Barroso who had been dismissed from office for political reasons. He created the Museum Course (1932), which operated on the premises of the aforementioned Museum and was director of the National Library (1932-1945). Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters elected on August 2 (1934), he was sworn in on April 13 (1935) in Varnhagen's chair.
He became an effective member and benefactor of the IHGB (1943) and died in Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Among other publications, Cartas de Nóbrega (1931), to the Feitos de D. João IV, by D. Francisco Manuel de Melo (1940), and the poem O Uraguai, by Basílio da Gama (1941). The bibliographical Classification was also authored by him. From Decimal Classification to its advantages (1929), transcribed in the National Museum Bulletin.
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