A place in Amazonian Historiography: The Trajectory of Bento de Figueiredo Tenreiro Aranha (1841-1919)

A TRAJETÓRIA DE BENTO DE FIGUEIREDO TENREIRO ARANHA (1841-1919)

Abstract

This article seeks to reconstruct the trajectory of Bento de Figueiredo Tenreiro Aranha (1841-1919), a journalist, politician, poet and historian from Pará who built his career in the Provinces, later States, of Pará and Amazonas. Despite producing historical texts for decades and of the most varied types, political history, trajectories, biographies and geographic studies, publishing them in journals, and acting in institutions such as the Historical and Geographical Institute of Pará and the Public Archive of the State of Amazonas, recovering and disseminating historical documents about the region, Bento Aranha is not among the authors of regional historiography, not appearing in any of his moments in the established divisions. It is intended, from the analysis of his production and intellectual performance, to identify him as one of the authors who, between the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, laid the foundations for historical research in Amazonas.

Keywords: Trajectory, Historiography, Amazonas.