Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda

Pontes de Miranda
Born(1892-04-23)23 April 1892
São Luis do Quitunde, Alagoas, Brazil
Died22 December 1979(1979-12-22) (aged 87)
Rio de Janeiro City, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
OccupationLawyer, jurist, professor, diplomat, essayist
Alma materFaculdade de Direito do Recife

Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda (April 23, 1892 – December 22, 1979) was a prominent Brazilian jurist, judge, diplomat and professor of Law at the Federal University of Pernambuco. His main work, the Tratado de Direito Privado (pt), a sixty-volume collection that covers topics ranging from contracts to inheritance, has left a deep and lasting influence on Brazilian law and its descriptive doctrine. He occupied the 7th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1979, until his death.

He is best known for the extent of his works, which covers several areas of knowledge, including Law, Sociology, Philosophy, Politics and Mathematics, and were published in Portuguese, German, French, Spanish and Italian.

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