António Augusto de Rocha Peixoto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

António Augusto de Rocha Peixoto

naturalist

Date of Birth: 18-May-1866

Place of Birth: Póvoa de Varzim, Porto District, Portugal

Date of Death: 02-May-1909

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist, prehistorian

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

António Augusto de Rocha Peixoto (Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, 18 May 1866 – Matosinhos, Portugal, 2 May 1909) was a Portuguese naturalist, ethnologist and archaeologist. In 1891, he became the secretariat of the magazine Revista de Portugal established by his friend Eça de Queiroz and organized the Cabinet of Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology of the Polytechnic Academy of Porto (currently University of Porto).
He also collaborated in other journals and magazines and was the director of the Public Library and Municipal Museum of Porto.
In his native town, he revealed cividade de Terroso and remodeled the town hall.
Two weeks after dying, his body was transferred from the cemetery of Agramonte in Porto to the one of Póvoa.