PROJECT COMENIUS AVIRTUAL MUSEUM OF

OUR TOWN

Bissaya Barreto

BIOGRAPHY

Fernando Baeta Bissaya Barreto Rosa was born in Castanheira de Pêra, on October 29th 1886.

He was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Coimbra and a politician.He boosted sanatoriums, leprosaria, child homes, shelters for the elderly, motherly institutes, economic neighborhoods. He led a campaign against tuberculosis, leprosy and madness.

He died in Lisbon on September 16th 1974.

WorkBissaya Barreto wrote many books about

Medicine such as:

The sun in surgery.’ Coimbra University Press, 1915.

‘The teaching of surgery and surgical pathology in Coimbra’. Coimbra, 1922.

He also wrote lots of articles for magazines.

“Portugal dos Pequenitos”is a learning-through-play park basically intended for children, conceived by Bissaya Barreto and designed by the architect Cassiano Branco. The park belongs to the Bissaya Barreto Foundation since 1959. Portugal dos Pequenitos is the living image of the Portuguese way of thinking and of being all over the world and an historical and  pedagogical remark of many generations.

“PORTUGAL DOS PEQUENITOS”