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BONIFACIO JOZA ANDRADA E SYLVA

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 967 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BONIFACIO JOZA See also:ANDRADA E SYLVA  D' (1765-1838), Brazilian statesman and naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Villa de See also:Santos, near Rio Janeiro . In 180o he was appointed See also:professor of See also:geology at See also:Coimbra, and soon after inspector-See also:general of the Portuguese mines; and in 1812 he was made perpetual secretary of the See also:Academy of See also:Lisbon . Returning to See also:Brazil in 1819, he urged Dom Pedro to resist the recall of the Lisbon See also:court, and was appointed one of his ministers in 1821 . When the See also:independence of Brazil was declared, See also:Andrada was made See also:minister of the interior and of See also:foreign affairs; and when it was established, he was again elected by the Constituent See also:Assembly, but his democratic principles resulted in his dismissal from See also:office, See also:July 1823 . On the See also:dissolution of the Assembly in See also:November, he was arrested and banished to See also:France, where he lived in See also:exile near See also:Bordeaux till, in 1829, he was permitted to return to Brazil . But being again arrested in 1833, and tried for intriguing on behalf of Dom Pedro I., he passed the See also:rest of his days in retirement till he died at See also:Nictheroy in 1838 .

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