Hermes da Fonseca
Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɛʁmis ʁoˈdɾigis dɐ fõˈsekɐ]; 12 May 1855 – 9 September 1923) was a Brazilian field marshal and politician who served as the eighth president of Brazil between 1910 and 1914. He was a nephew of marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, the first president of Brazil, and general João Severiano da Fonseca, patron of the Army Health Service. His parents were the marshal Hermes Ernesto da Fonseca and Rita Rodrigues Barbosa.
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Rodrigues and the second or paternal family name is Fonseca.
Hermes da Fonseca
Venceslau Brás
Alexandrino Faria de Alencar
José Maria Marinho da Silva
Francisco Argolo
Luís Mendes de Morais
12 May 1855
São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, Empire of Brazil
9 September 1923 (aged 68)
Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deodoro da Fonseca (uncle)
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1871-1906
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- 1st Battery of the 2nd Artillery Regiment
- General-Command of Artillery of the Imperial Army
- 2nd Field Artillery Regiment
- Directorate of the Bahia War Arsenal
- Niterói Garrison Command
- 2nd Mounted Artillery Regiment
- Chief of the Military Cabinet
- Police Brigade of Rio de Janeiro
- 4th Military District Command
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
His father was born in Alagoas and, while serving in the army, was transferred to the town of São Gabriel, in Rio Grande do Sul, where Hermes was born, in 1855. When his father was sent to the Paraguayan War, the family returned to Rio de Janeiro.
Military career[edit]
In 1871, at the age of 16, he graduated with a degree in Science and Literature and joined the Military School of Praia Vermelha, where he was a student of Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães, one of the introducers of the positivist ideas of Auguste Comte in Brazil, and thus did not escape the influence of the master, although he did not become an orthodox positivist. Upon graduating, Fonseca served as an assistant to prince Gaston de Orléans, the Count of Eu.