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Swiss Brazilian
Swiss Brazilians () are Brazilian citizens of full or partial Switzerland, Swiss ancestry, who remain culturally connected to Switzerland, or Swiss-born people permanently residing in Brazil. Notable Swiss Brazilians *Clóvis Bornay *José Carlos Bauer *A. C. Frieden *Émil Goeldi *Oswaldo Goeldi *Ernst Götsch *Cláudio Heinrich *Heloísa Périssé *Ricardo Boechat *Adriana Lima *Adolfo Lutz *Berta Lutz *Jorge Paulo Lemann *Eric Maleson , Eric Walther Maleson *Gérard Moss *Sabrina Sato *Leticia Spiller *Xuxa Meneghel *Luciano Werhli See also * Immigration to Brazil * White Brazilians * Swiss people * Swiss Americans * Swiss Abroad by SWI swissinfo.ch in Portuguese * Austrian Brazilians * French Brazilians * German Brazilians * Italian Brazilians References Swiss diaspora in Brazil, European diaspora in Brazil Brazilian people of Swiss descent, {{Brazil-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a character, or group of characters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number. Historically these letters were "elevated terminals", that is to say the last few letters of the full word denoting the ordinal form of the number displayed as a superscript. Probably originating with Latin scribes, the character(s) used vary in different languages. In English orthography, this corresponds to the suffixes ''st'', ''nd'', ''rd'', ''th'' in written ordinals (represented either on the line ''1st'', ''2nd'', ''3rd'', ''4th'' or as superscript ). Also commonly encountered in Romance languages are the superscript or superior (and often underlined) masculine ordinal indicator, , and feminine ordinal indicator, . In formal typography, the ordinal indicators and are distinguishable from other characters. The practice of underlined (or doubly underlined) superscripted abbreviations was common in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Brazilian
French Brazilians (; ) refers to Brazilian citizens of full or partial French ancestry or persons born in France who reside in Brazil. Between 1850 and 1965 around 100,000 French people immigrated to Brazil. The country received the second largest number of French immigrants to South America after Argentina (239,000). It is estimated that there are around 1 million Brazilians of French descent today. French immigration to Brazil From 1819 to 1940, 40,383 French people immigrated to Brazil. Most of them settled in the country between 1884 and 1925 (8,008 from 1819 to 1883, 25,727 from 1884 to 1925, 6,648 from 1926 to 1940). Another source estimates that around 100,000 French people immigrated to Brazil between 1850 and 1965. The French community in Brazil numbered 592 in 1888 and 5,000 in 1915. It was estimated that 14,000 French people were living in Brazil in 1912, 9% of the 149,400 French people living in Latin America, the second largest community after Argentina (100,000). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfo Lutz
Adolfo Lutz (18 December 1855 – 6 October 1940) was a Brazilian physician, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and a pioneer epidemiologist and researcher in infectious diseases. Life Lutz was born in Rio de Janeiro, on December 18, 1855, son of Gustav Lutz († 1891) and Mathilde Oberteuffer, a family of Bern. He studied medicine in Switzerland, graduating in 1879 at the University of Bern. After graduation he went on to study experimental medicine techniques in London, England (where he studied with Joseph Lister, 1827–1912), Leipzig, Germany, Vienna, Austria, Prague and Paris, France (where he studied with Louis Pasteur, 1822–1895). After his retirement in 1908, Dr. Adolfo Lutz moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he worked for 32 more years, until his death, on October 6, 1940, at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, created by another great Brazilian physician and epidemiologist, Oswaldo Cruz, and where he was a director of the Institute of Experimental Path ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima (; born 12 June 1981) is a Brazilian model. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 to 2018. She was the longest-running model and named "the most valuable Victoria's Secret Angel" in 2017. She is also known as a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics since 2003, and for her Super Bowl and Kia Motors commercials. At age 15, Lima won Ford Models' "Supermodel of Brazil" competition, and took second place the following year in the Ford " Supermodel of the World" competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City. Lima is currently ranked by models.com as one of the " New Supers". Since 2014, Lima has been the world's second highest-paid model. In 2012, she came in 4th place on the ''Forbes'' top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $7.3 million in one year. In 2013, she came in 3rd place and in 2014 she came in 2nd place with earnings of $8 million. In 2015, she came in 2nd place with earnings of $9 million. In 2016, she kept the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Boechat
Ricardo Eugênio Boechat (July 13, 1952 – February 11, 2019) was a Brazilian news anchor. He worked for newspapers such as ''O Globo'', ''O Dia'', ''O Estado de São Paulo'' and ''Jornal do Brasil''. Before his death, he was active as a news director and radio anchor at BandNews FM and held a position as television anchor at ''Jornal da Band''. Boechat won three Esso Journalism Awards. He entertained a weekly column at news magazine '' IstoÉ'', and in 2002 authored the book ''Copacabana Palace''. Career Boechat began his career in 1970 as reporter at the newspapers ''O Estado de S. Paulo'', ''Jornal do Brasil'', and the now extinct ''Diário de Notícias''. In 1983 went to the newspaper ''O Globo''. In 1987 he served a six-month term as the Secretariat of Social Communication in the government of Moreira Franco (1987–1991). After fulfilling that commitment he returned to ''O Globo''. At the same time, he began teaching at the College of the City of Rio de Janeiro, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heloísa Périssé
Heloísa Perlingeiro Périssé (born 9 August 1966) is a Brazilian actress and writer. Biography Périssé was born in Rio de Janeiro and has appeared in Brazilian television shows and films. She has also written for the TV show ''Sai de Baixo ''Sai de Baixo'' (a Brazilian Portuguese language, Portuguese slang roughly translated as "get out of the way") is a Brazilian sitcom that first aired on Rede Globo from 1996 to 2002. It followed the lives of the members of a dysfunctional family, ...''. Périssé has also written books including, ''Mãe, Você Não Tá Entendendo'' and ''O Diário de Tati''. She has been a daughter-in-law of Chico Anysio. She divorced Lug de Paula, Chico Anysio's son, after a seven-year marriage. She has two daughters: Antônia and Luiza. Filmography Television Film References External links Official Website* 1966 births Living people Actresses from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian people of Swiss descent Brazilian people of Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cláudio Heinrich
Cláudio Heinrich (born November 20, 1972) is a Brazilian film and television actor and Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor. Biography Cláudio Heinrich was born in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America .... He is of Swiss descent. In 2014, he became a Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor. Complete filmography Television jobs References External links Cláudio Heinrich Official page (in Portuguese)* 1972 births Living people Male actors from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian people of Swiss-German descent Brazilian male film actors Brazilian male telenovela actors {{Brazil-actor-stub People awarded a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Götsch
Ernst Götsch (born 1948) is a Swiss farmer and researcher working mostly in Brazil. He has advocated for an ancient system of climate and biodiversity-friendly sustainable farming techniques known as syntropic agriculture. Biography Götsch was born in 1948 in Raperswilen, Switzerland, and moved to Brazil in the early 1980s, establishing himself in a farm in Southern Bahia. Years before, he had decided to quit a research job on genetic enhancement at FAP Zürich-Reckenholz. He has been dedicated to giving lectures, courses and consulting to publicize knowledge of his approach, which has now been dubbed 'syntropic agriculture'. He has taught agroforestry at The Intuitive Technology and Bio-Architecture School. Approach Götsch has achieved renown due to the results of his methods, evident in the successes of his farm ''Olhos D’Água.'' The farm has been visited by Brazilian government agencies that carry out environmental control. It is considered notable because the land wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswaldo Goeldi
Oswaldo Goeldi (31 October 1895 – 16 February 1961) was a Brazilian artist and engraver. He was the son of Swiss naturalist Émil Goeldi. Biography Goeldi was born in Rio de Janeiro, but lived in Belém in the state Pará, until he was 6 years old. His father was based there as director of the Museu de História Natural e Etnografia do Pará (presently the Emílio Goeldi Museum). In 1910 his family returned to Switzerland and he started his studies in Bern, and later in Zürich. After serving for a brief period in the army during the First World War, Goeldi moved to Geneva, where he was accepted at the École des Arts et Métiers. Frustrated with the academic environment, he abandoned the school after his father’s death in 1917 and began studying with artists Serge Pahnke (1875–1950) and Henri van Muyden (1860–s.d.), and later with Hermann Kümmerly, with whom he learned lithography. In 1919 Goeldi returned to Rio de Janeiro and began a career of engraver and illus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émil Goeldi
Émil August Goeldi (var. Göldi, Portuguese var. Emílio Augusto Goeldi) (28 August 1859 – 5 July 1917 in Bern), was a Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist. He was the father of Oswaldo Goeldi, a noted Brazilian engraver and illustrator. Biography Goeldi studied zoology in Jena, Germany with Ernst Haeckel, and in 1884 he was invited by Ladislau de Souza Mello Netto, the influential director of the Brazilian Museu Imperial e Nacional, to work at that institution. Goeldi arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1885 to work in the National Museum (now the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. In May 1890, he was fired, due to political circumstances related to the proclamation of the republic and the exile of his principal benefactor, Emperor D. Pedro II. He was then invited by the governor of the state of Pará, Lauro Sodré, to reorganize the Pará Museum of Natural History and Ethnography, in Belém, which had been founded in 1866 by Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna. He arrived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Carlos Bauer
José Carlos Bauer (21 November 1925 – 4 February 2007), commonly known as Bauer, was a Brazilian football player and manager who played as a midfielder. Early life Born in São Paulo, Bauer was the son of a Swiss man and an African-Brazilian woman. He was normally a defensive midfielder, Bauer was regarded as one of the finest Brazilian midfielders of his generation. Career Bauer played for São Paulo and Botafogo. He won six São Paulo State Championship (1943, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949 and 1953). For the Brazil national team he played 29 matches, with five goals he won 1949 Copa América and participated at two FIFA World Cup finals, in 1950 and 1954. His last match in this tournament is famous Battle of Berne. After he retired he managed Ferroviária de Araraquara. Curiously, in a trip of Ferroviária in Mozambique, Bauer saw a young Eusébio. Very impressed with him, Bauer indicated Eusébio to São Paulo, which denied him."Os vice-campeões", Max Gehringer, ''Espec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clóvis Bornay
Clóvis Bornay (January 10, 1916 – October 9, 2005) was a Brazilian Museology, museologist, actor, and maker of Rio Carnival, Carnival costumes for more than 40 years, which made him famous throughout the nation, and he continues to be honored and the subject at Carnival parades today. He also composed some of the Carnival songs in the 1960s and 1970s and was the costume designer for the Salgueiro parade in 1966; w:pt:Unidos de Lucas, Unidos de Lucas from 1967 to 1969; GRES Portela in 1969 and 1970, where he won at this carnival for his theme "Legends and Mysteries of the Amazon"; GRES Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel in 1972 and 1973; and lastly Tijuca, Unidos da Tijuca in 1973. He was born of Spanish immigration to Brazil, Spanish and Switzerland, Swiss parents in Nova Friburgo, near Rio de Janeiro, where he died on October 9, 2005, at age 89. He started designing the 1930s until eventually starting at carnivals. Filmography References Carnivals in Brazil 1916 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
