Alexander Lenard

In 1920-1921 he began his study at Wiener Theresianum (a board school in Vienna) where he was hungry and cold, and the few days at home at weekends were a real happiness to him.

In 1952, he emigrated to Brazil, where in 1956 he took part and earned some money in a São Paulo television programme called The Sky is the Limit, answering questions about J. S. Bach.

Later he settled in the Dona Emma valley, where he bought a small farm with a house he made "invisible" by surrounding it with his favourite trees.

In response, he translated Winnie the Pooh into Latin, for which he combed the classics for idiomatic expressions used during ancient times.

As of 2010[update] two of his original books have been published in English – The Valley of the Latin Bear (1965), and The Fine Art of Roman Cooking (1966).

In 2009, the New York Film Festival premiered Lynne Sachs's The Last Happy Day, an experimental retelling of Lenard's life story from the intimate perspective of his distant cousin turned filmmaker.

The film features unpublished letters from the 1940s to 1970s written by Lenard to his relatives in the United States, as well as interviews and archival photos.

[3] In Robert Hellenga's 1998 novel The Fall of a Sparrow the latin inscription for a tombstone is taken from the death notice for Alexander Lenard.