Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior

Brazilian writer

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1845

Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Date of Death: 20-May-1898

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, novelist

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior (Rio de Janeiro, 17 February 1845 – Lisbon, 20 May 1898) was a Brazilian diplomat, poet, novelist and dramaturgist.
He was bachelor in the Faculdade de Direito do Recife in 1869, in the same class of the writer Araripe Júnior.
His works switched from Romanticism to Parnasianism.
As a diplomat, he lived in Santiago de Chile, Roma and Lisbon, where he finally stayed and he met intellectuals such as Eça de Queiroz, Ramalho Ortigão, Guerra Junqueiro or Fialho de Almeida.
He was a member and one of the founders of Academia Brasileira de Letras.