His Excellency
The Baron of Ponte Ribeiro
Personal details
BornMarch 4, 1795
Viseu
DiedSeptember 1, 1878
Rio de Janeiro

Duarte da Ponte Ribeiro, 1st Baron of Ponte Ribeiro (Viseu; March 4, 1795 — Rio de Janeiro; September 1, 1878) was a Portuguese-Brazilian physician, diplomat and cartographer. He was the first and last baron of Ponte Ribeiro.[1]

Biography

Born in Portugal, son of surgeon José da Costa Quiroga da Ponte Ribeiro and Ana Ribeiro, he arrived to Brazil in 1807. In 1811, at the age of 16, he graduated as a surgeon from the Bahia School of Medicine.

Shortly after Brazil's independence, a cause he supported, he was appointed consul general in Spain, where he was tasked with having the country recognise Brazil's independence. He later served as a diplomat in Lisbon, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and Buenos Aires until the Platine War, where he played an important role.

Between 1836 and 1841, he became the Empire's representative to the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, with which he negotiated a draft trade treaty, an opportunity in which he employed the thesis of Uti possidetis de facto.[1][2][3] Although the treaty was rejected by the General Assembly, the doctrine became a principle in Brazil's boundary negotiations,[4] when it was adopted as a guideline by the baron of Rio Branco.

He was honored as commander of the Imperial Order of Christ, in 1841, and great dignitary of the Imperial Order of the Rose. Furthermore, he was part of the Imperial Council and a noble knight of the Imperial House.[1]

He was also a member of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute (IHGB) since 1838.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Soares de Souza, José Antônio (2021). Um Diplomata do Império: Barão da Ponte Ribeiro (in Portuguese) (1st ed.). FUNAG - Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão. pp. 23–24. ISBN 978-65-8708-378-0.
  2. ↑ da Ponte Ribeiro, Duarte (1876). Exposição dos trabalhos historicos geographicos e hydrographicos que serviram de base a carta geral do imperio exhibida na exposição nacional de 1875. Typographia Nacional. OCLC 637997136.
  3. ↑ Macedo Janke, Leandro (2015-02-06). Duarte da Ponte Ribeiro. Território e territorialidade no Império do Brasil (Thesis). University of São Paulo. doi:10.11606/T.8.2015.tde-11062015-140713.
  4. ↑ Ricupero, Rubens (2017). A diplomacia na construção do Brasil 1750-2016 (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Versal Editores. OCLC 1017706725.
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