António Luís Gomes

António Luís Gomes (23 September 1863 – 28 August 1961) was a Portuguese jurist and politician. A member of the Portuguese Republican Party, he served as a government minister and ambassador to Brazil.

Gomes married Maria José Medeiros de Oliveira, and was father of the mathematician Ruy Luís Gomes.

As a student at the University of Coimbra, he was the main mover in the founding of the Associação Académica de Coimbra.[1]

References

  1. ^ Alberto Sousa Lamy A Academia de Coimbra, 1537-1990: história, praxe, boémia e estudo, partidas e piadas, organismos académicos 1990 Page 134 "A Associação Académica de Coimbra (1887). De 1885 a 1890, foi presidente da direcção do Teatro Académico o estudante de Direito António Luís Gomes, mais tarde membro do Governo Provisório da Primeira República e reitor da ... foram os grandes obreiros duma radical reforma dos estatutos da Academia Dramática de Coimbra (1849-1887)."