Otto de Brito Guerra : garimpo de ideias e reflexões

Abstract

Professor Otto de Brito Guerra, born in the city of Mossoró, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, carried out, in addition to his legal activities linked to the professional practice of law, an interesting bibliographic production materialized not only in the works “Epopeia e Tragédia do Nordeste ”, “The Battle of the Droughts”, “Divorce and Family Misfit”, “Life and Death of the Northeastern”, as well as in the articles published in the newspapers “Tribuna do Norte” and “A Ordem”. Of this vast production, the survey of the political and legal situation of the Northeast stands out (the problem of droughts, the legal system, the regional difficulties and the geographical, social and anthropological approaches typical of Northeasterners) and the notes that touched on his production as professor (holder of the chair of Civil Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte), especially those related to family law, succession and the so-called “social doctrine of the church”, a specific scope of his teaching in Catholic-Catholic ecclesiastical formation. Romana, carried out by the archdiocese of Natal, by the seminary São Pedro...