Dantas Barreto

Emídio Dantas Barreto (1850-1931) was a Brazilian army marshal, military historian, journalist, novelist and playwright.

After the end of the war, he returned to Brazil and took an artillery course at the Military School in Rio de Janeiro.

Despite having important military and political responsibilities, Dantas Barreto also dedicated himself to literature, becoming known for his activities as a chronicler, novelist and playwright.

He wrote for Revista Americana in Rio de Janeiro and Jornal do Comércio in Porto Alegre.

He was the second occupant of chair 27 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, to which he was elected in September 1910, succeeding Joaquim Nabuco.