Pedro L. Mangabeira Albernaz

This time I will tell you about a grand-uncle that I never met. He had a very short life, he died when he was 25 years old. He was born in 1879 and died in 1904. He was a poet. He was also a physician and a soldier. Francisco Mangabeira Drawing by Maria Sílva Mangabeira Albernaz In 1968 my father wrote a book about him, called “Sonho e Aventura” (“Dream and Aventure”). I remember the time when he undertook the project of writing this book. He talked many times with his uncles João and Octavio, Francisco’s younger brothers, collected in Salvador many unpublished poems and writings and went to São Luís, in the state of Maranhão, to visit his tomb.  My father never knew his uncle; he only heard from his parents that Chico (as the family called him) had carried him when he was two years old. But Chico stayed many years in different areas and my father was 8 years old when the family received the news that Chico had died.  Now my nephew Eduardo Mangabeira Albernaz republished my fa

For a long period of time Vienna was the Otolaryngology capital of the world. My father’s teacher, Professor Eduardo de Moraes, who taught other famous Brazilian otolaryngologists – Ermiro de Lima, Octacilio Lopes and Arthur Sá, among others – was trained in Vienna. The older otolaryngologists in São Paulo, Henrique Lindenberg, Francisco Hartung, Antonio de Paula Santos e Raphael da Nova, also studied in Vienna. I do not know how many American otolaryngologists studied in Vienna, but I know that Max Goldstein, who created The Laryngoscope and founded the Central Institute for the Deaf went to Vienna in search of more knowledge.  The man responsible for establishing in Vienna this famous school of Otolaryngology was Ádám Politzer. Ádám Politzer Politzer was born in 1835 in Alberti, near Budapest. He belonged to a well established Jewish family that provided him with an excellent education. He studied medicine in the University of Vienna, graduating in 1859. Working with the ph