Raul Proença

Raul Proença
Born	(1884-05-10)May 10, 1884 Caldas da Rainha
Died	May 20, 1941(1941-05-20) (aged 57) Porto
Occupation(s)	Writer, journalist, librarian, philosopher
Known for	Journalism

Raul Proença (May 10, 1884 – May 20, 1941) was a Portuguese writer, journalist, and intellectual. Born in Caldas da Rainha, Proença earned a degree in economic and financial sciences from the Instituto Industrial e Comercial de Lisboa. He was a founder of the magazine Seara Nova. In 1927, Proença was exiled to Paris. Proença returned to Portugal in 1932. He was hospitalized for mental illness, but died of typhoid fever in Porto.

Proença was a supporter of Lamarckian evolution. He argued that Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was the true founder of evolution.^[1]

Graduated in Economic and Financial Sciences from the Industrial and Commercial Institute of Lisbon, with multifaceted thinking, he defined himself philosophically as an idealist and realist, defender of democratic socialism within a parliamentary regime.

Raul exiled to Paris, France in 1927 after Portugal was going through a military dictatorship. He defended his ideas and fought against Sidonism and the military dictatorship, which appeared in 1926.

He is, nevertheless, a "victim" of the mentality of his time, adhering to racist dogmas, then popular in certain republican circles. He published in this topic, for example, "The Military Dictatorship: History and Analysis of a Crime", in which he defends democracy from men like Mussolini who destroyed it in his country. But he also defends Eugenics, for a "purer race", calling for a "politics of race" that corrects Portuguese decadence, the main cause of which he said was "ethnic degradation" due to "our sensuality" "in contact with other peoples." He therefore declared a "physiological policy" the most important of policies, "defending the Portuguese from greater bastardizations", seeking an "unharmed" race, along with national re-education. He would also declare, contradicting the dogmas of the time, the " intellectual superiority of Portuguese women over men", even though he declared this as an "extraordinary" symptom of an "ethnic and educational catastrophe".

• Raul Proença — profile from Centro Virtual Camões
• Ecsola Secundária Raul Proença — secondary school in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
• Works by Raul Sangreman Proençe at Project Gutenberg

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