António Luís Gomes Explained

António Luís Gomes (23 September 1863 in Porto  - 28 August 1961) was a Portuguese jurist and Portuguese Republican Party politician. He married Maria José Medeiros de Oliveira, and was father of the mathematician Ruy Luís Gomes.

As a student at the University of Coimbra he was the main mover in the founding of the Associação Académica de Coimbra.^[1]

Later during the Portuguese First Republic, he was a government minister and ambassador to Brazil.

Notes and References

1. Alberto Sousa Lamy A Academia de Coimbra, 1537-1990: história, praxe, boémia e estudo, partidas e piadas, organismos académicos 1990 Page 134 "A Associação Académica de Coimbra (1887). De 1885 a 1890, foi presidente da direcção do Teatro Académico o estudante de Direito António Luís Gomes, mais tarde membro do Governo Provisório da Primeira República e reitor da ... foram os grandes obreiros duma radical reforma dos estatutos da Academia Dramática de Coimbra (1849-1887)."