José Hermano Saraiva

José Hermano Saraiva
José Hermano Saraiva
	Marcello Caetano
Preceded by	Inocêncio Galvão Teles
Succeeded by	José Veiga Simão
Personal details
Born	José Hermano Saraiva; 3 October 1919; Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
Died	20 July 2012 (aged 92); Palmela, Portugal
Spouse	Maria de Lourdes de Bettencourt de Sá Nogueira
Alma mater	University of Lisbon
Profession	Jurist;

José Hermano Saraiva

GCIP (3 October 1919 – 20 July 2012) was a Portuguese professor, historian and jurist. He was most known as a television personality in Portugal, having been the author and presenter of several documentary series of historical divulgation from 1971 to 2003 on the Portuguese television.^[1]

Biography

Hermano Saraiva was a professor of

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

Sciences Academy of Lisbon, Portuguese Academy of History and São Paulo Historical Institute

in Brazil.

Hermano Saraiva was distinguished with the Grã-Cruz of the Order of Public Instruction, Grã-Cruz of the Order of Prince Henry, the Grã-Cruz of the Order of Barão do Rio Branco of Brazil, the Grã-Cruz of the Ordem do Mérito do Trabalho and the Comendador da Real Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa.

He enjoyed wide popularity and success as a television communicator whose television programs devoted to the History of Portugal, namely O Tempo e a Alma (1971), Gente de Paz (1978) and Horizontes da Memória (1996-2003) on RTP state-run television channels, reached a large audience among the Portuguese population and the Portuguese expat communities outside Portugal.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Personal life

Hermano Saraiva was born in

nephew José António Saraiva worked as a journalist and architect. One of his maternal uncles was the last living Portuguese veteran of the First World War

.

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

Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquess of Sá da Bandeira

) and wife Maria Luísa Rodrigues de Bettencourt (married 20 November 1915), fathering five children.

Saraiva died, aged 92, in Setúbal.

Bibliography

Memoirs:

Saraiva, José Hermano (2007). Album de Memórias (in Portuguese). Lisbon: O SOL é essential S.A.
ISBN 978-989-8120-00-7
.

Academic lectures published by the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa:

Testemunho Social e Condenação de Gil Vicente (1976)
A Revolução de Fernão Lopes (1977)
Elementos para uma nova biografia de Camões (1978)
Proposta de uma Cronologia para a lírica de Camões (1981–82)
Evocação de António Cândido (1988)
No Centenário de Simão Bolívar (1984)
A crise geral e a Aljubarrota de Froyssart (1988)

Works on teaching:

Notas para uma didáctica assistencial (1964)
Aos Estudantes (1969)
A Pedagogia do Livro (1972)
O Futuro da Pedagogia (1974)
Aspirações e contradições da Pedagogia contemporânea (1970)

Legal works:

O problema do Contrato (1949)
A revisão constitucional e a eleição do Chefe do Estado (1959)
Non-self-governing territories and The United Nation Charter (1960)
Lições de Introdução ao Direito (1962–63)
A Crise do Direito (1964)
Apostilha Crítica ao Projecto do Código Civil (1966)
A Lei e o Direito (1967)

History works:

Uma carta do Infante D. Henrique (1948)
As razões de um Centenário (1954)
História Concisa de Portugal (1976, translated in Spanish, Italian, German, Bulgarian, Polish and Chinese)
História de Portugal, 3 Vols – Director and co-author (1981)
O Tempo e a Alma, 2 Vols (1986)
Breve História de Portugal (1996)
Portugal – Os Últimos 100 anos (1996)
Portugal – a Companion History (1997)

Contributions for the History of the Portuguese People:

Outras maneiras de ver (1979)
Vida Ignorada de Camões (1980)
Raiz madrugada (1981)
Ditos Portugueses dignos de memória (1994)
A memória das Cidades (1999)
[...]

Television shows

References

^ "José Hermano Saraiva reconhecido pela Academia como 'grande divulgador' da História" [José Hermano Saraiva acknowledged by the Academy as History's 'great spokesperson'] (in Portuguese). Sol. 11 October 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
^ "José Hermano Saraiva" [José Hermano Saraiva] (in Portuguese). WAATP. 11 October 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "José Hermano Saraiva" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
^ "Horizontes da Memória – Temporada I" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 19 May 2023.
^ "Horizontes da Memória – Temporada VI" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 19 May 2023.

[1] "José Hermano Saraiva reconhecido pela Academia como 'grande divulgador' da História" [José Hermano Saraiva acknowledged by the Academy as History's 'great spokesperson'] (in Portuguese). Sol. 11 October 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2011.

[2] "José Hermano Saraiva" [José Hermano Saraiva] (in Portuguese). WAATP. 11 October 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] "José Hermano Saraiva" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 19 May 2023.

[4] "Horizontes da Memória – Temporada I" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 19 May 2023.

[5] "Horizontes da Memória – Temporada VI" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 19 May 2023.

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