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Čapek, Karel

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  • 1890-1938

Karel Čapek was born at Malé Svatoňovice, Bohemia, in 1890. He studied philosophy and literature at the universities of Prague, Berlin and Paris, where he defended a thesis on esthetics in 1915. After his studies he devoted himself to literature and translation, publishing works of French poetry and Anglo-Saxon philosophy during the war. After 1919, he focused on theatre and directed the city theatre in Prague where he staged for the first time Les Conci de Shelley.

Čapek became a member of the Permanent Committee on Arts and Letters in 1931. At the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) he advocated a number of measures meant to use music as a means for mutual understanding between peoples. In 1937 he also participated in a collective work, entitled “Vers un novel humanisme”, part of the IIIC’s series of interviews. He died in 1938 in Prague.

Castro, Aloísio de

  • Person
  • 1881-1959

Aloisio de Castro was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1881. He studied medicine in Rio de Janeiro, and, after having received a scholarship for a research trip to Europe, he obtained his doctorate in 1903. He practiced at the Medical School of Rio de Janeiro from 1904 until 1908, before becoming deputy health secretary at the social service in Rio de Janeiro (1906–08), professor of medical pathology and clinical medicine (1915–1940), Director-General of the School of Medicine (1915–1924), and director of the general department for education at the Brazilian Ministry of Education (1927–1932). De Castro also served as President of the Society of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Legal Medicine at the Brazilian Academy of Medicine. He was a member of numerous international medical associations. Beyond his scientific work, he published pieces of poetry as well as musical compositions for piano and choir.

De Castro was a member of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) from 1922 until 1930. In 1922 he founded the Brazilian Committee of Intellectual Cooperation, whose presidency he assumed in 1926 until 1933. He died in 1959 in Rio de Janeiro.

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