The «Mal sabida Olhão» by Francisco Fernando Lopes (1884 – 1969) will be remembered in a session that the APOS –Association for the Valorization of the Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Olhão will organize at the Sociedade Recreativa Olhanense, on November 30th, at 16 pm.
A conference that will have as speaker Andreia Fidalgo, Graduated in Cultural Heritage, who recently finished her Masters in History of the Algarve, with her final thesis on Francisco Fernandes Lopes.
The citizen from Olho who is focused on in the session «was one of the most outstanding personalities of the Algarve and national cultural panorama of the first half of the XNUMXth century, which remains little recognized». «Born in Olhão, where he lived most of his life, and graduated in Medicine, Fernandes Lopes was much more than a common “Olhão doctor”, the epithet for which he became known, but which does not do him justice, since he was an intellectual multifaceted and interested in the most diverse areas of knowledge and whose intellectual activity largely went beyond the local, regional and even national scope», reveals Andreia Fidalgo, in an excerpt about her lecture.
In addition to his activity as a clinician, he was “philosopher, professor, historian and musicologist”, facets for which he is recognized, as well as “for the tireless dissemination of the cubist village he sought to place on the map of Portugal, making its singularities known”.
«In Olhão, he committed himself to raising the cultural level of the population by organizing, between 1924 and 1929, a program of concerts for the dissemination of music, which led to the visit of renowned personalities in the contemporary musical milieu to the town of Olhão. In his “badly known Olhão”, as he himself characterized it due to the unfair ignorance to which the town was devoted, he was the guide of the most illustrious visitors, to whom he insisted on showing the beautiful and unusual roof terraces of Olhão», adds the researcher.
«Interested in philosophy, history, art, politics, literature and music, Fernandes Lopes has a vast and interesting work published on these and other themes. His facet as a musicologist is particularly noteworthy, which resulted in several essays, including the work As Cantigas de Santa Maria by King Afonso X, the Wise, and his Music (1952), as well as his facet as a historian, for which he obtained national recognition in 1960, when he took 2nd place in the competition “Grande Prix Infante D. Henrique”, promoted by the Executive Committee of the V Centenary of the Death of Infante D. Henrique, with the study A Vida ea Obra do Infante D .Henry,” he concluded.
Brief biographical note about Andreia Fidalgo:
Andreia Fidalgo has a degree in Cultural Heritage from the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the University of Algarve, and a Master in History of the Algarve from the same University, and her master's thesis was about the physician from Olhano Francisco Fernandes Lopes (1884-1969).
Between December 2010 and November 2013 she received a scholarship from the UAlg Library, where she worked on the project to organize the Documentary Collection of Dr. Joaquim Magalhães (1909-1999), supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Since 2008, she has been a member of the Center for the Study of Heritage and History of the Algarve (CEPHA/UAlg), in which she has participated as a researcher and in the organization of various activities.
Since the 2009/2010 academic year, she has been a constant collaborator at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at UAlg, teaching the History of Modern Culture course unit to the degree courses in Cultural Heritage and Archeology.
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