# Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay

> Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay, was a Brazilian writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist and nobleman. He is famous for the regionalist novel Inocência, considered a major forerunner of naturalism in Brazil, and for A Retirada da Laguna, an account of an episode in the Paraguayan War. The Brazilianist Leslie Bethell has described it as "the one undoubted literary masterpiece produced by the Paraguayan War".

*Brazilian writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist and nobleman (1843-1899)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Brazil
- **Born:** 1843-02-22
- **Died:** 1899-01-25
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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- [Alfredo d’Escragnolle Taunay](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_d%E2%80%99Escragnolle_Taunay)
- [Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_d'Escragnolle_Taunay%2C_Viscount_of_Taunay)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1787960)

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