The rector of the University of Algarve has just decreed three days of academic mourning for the death of Professor Joaquim Romero de Magalhães, which occurred this morning at his home in Coimbra, as Sul Informação reported first hand.
In a statement, the rector Paulo Águas, "on behalf of the entire academic community" expresses "the deepest sorrow for the death of Professor Joaquim Antero Romero Magalhães" and addresses "to family and friends the most sincere and heartfelt condolences."
UAlg, in its note, recalls that Joaquim Romero Magalhães received, on December 12th, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Algarve.
In this ceremony, Joaquim Romero Magalhães had dedicated a large part of his speech to the Algarve that saw him born, remembering “lives” and “people”, but, as he himself emphasized, “without being regionalist or exclusivist”. “Is the Algarve definable?”, he asked. “The Algarve is a story, a literature, a landscape, a luminous hue. It is a way of living and knowing how to live and it is a set of what ultimately surrounds and comforts us. It's all that, what you see and what you don't see. What is material and what hovers above that reality. It is a whole, it cannot be fragmented, it is something that still awakens my senses”, he stressed.
Maria Leonor Freire Costa, professor at the University of Lisbon, who sponsored the delivery of the Honoris Causa, also mentioned that “Joaquim Romero Magalhães will figure among the scarce fifteen historians (domestic and foreign) praised with PhDs in honor by Portuguese public universities throughout practically a century”.
The rector of UAlg, Paulo Águas, in his speech, had stated that it was “an honor for the University of Algarve to formalize this relationship, although we already considered him one of ours, due to the availability shown at different times to work with and, above all, , for the University of Algarve”. And that he believed that “it was about a passionate availability, conditioned by his condition as an Algarvian that he permanently cultivated. This distinction thus surpassed the Academy, being shared and assumed by the entire Region, throughout the Algarve”.
Professor Joaquim Romero Magalhães died at home, in the city of Coimbra, in the early hours of December 24th.
The funeral ceremonies will take place from 10:00 am on the 26th of December in the Chapel of the University of Coimbra.
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