Fidelino de Sousa Figueiredo

Fidelino de Sousa Figueiredo was a Portuguese literary scholar. He was born in 1889, in Lisbon, and died in 1967. After graduating from university in 1910, he worked at the Ministry of National Education and was twice appointed director of the National Library of Lisbon, between 1918–19 and 1927. However, university teaching led him to live abroad for about a decade and a half, primarily in Brazil.