José Murilo de Carvalho
José Murilo de Carvalho (8 September 1939 – 13 August 2023) was a Brazilian historian. He obtained his PhD in political science from
Stanford University, defending a thesis on the
Brazilian Empire. He was professor emeritus at the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and also taught at the
Federal University of Minas Gerais. He was a visiting professor and researcher at the universities of Oxford, Leiden, Stanford, California (Irvine), London, Notre Dame, at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and at the Ortega y Gasset Foundation in Madrid.
Carvalho published and organized 19 books and more than 100 magazine articles. He was a member of the
Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the
Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he was the sixth occupant of Chair 5. He was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters on 11 March 2004, in succession to
Rachel de Queiroz and was received on 10 September 2004 by the academic
Affonso Arinos de Mello Franco.
José Murilo de Carvalho died of
COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro, on 13 August 2023, at the age of 83.
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