Fernando Novais, Leading Brazilian Historian, Dies at 93

Overview

• USP's Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences announced his death at age 93.
• The faculty issued an official note expressing deep sorrow and solidarity with his family and colleagues.
• He taught at USP from 1961 to 1986, earned his doctorate there in 1973, and later taught at Unicamp's economics institute until 2003.
• His thesis, later published as Portugal and Brazil in the Crisis of the Old Colonial System, became a classic for merging economic analysis with colonial policy.
• He coordinated the series History of Private Life in Brazil in the 1990s and is remembered as a mentor who leaves two children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.