History in higher education in Portugal (1859-1911)

Abstract

With this article I sought to gather contributions for a reflection on the process of the emergence of History in higher education in Portugal. I studied its development as an autonomous area of knowledge that is accepted as relevant knowing. I wanted to broaden the understanding of the mechanisms that led to this status, while bearing in mind that this process did not follow scientific or academic matters exclusively. I focused on the Higher School of Letters, created by D. Pedro V in 1858, which was the first Portuguese institution specifically devoted to the teaching of social sciences and humanities. With the establishment of the Republic, this institution became the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, founded in 1910.