One Master of Rigor: Manoel Luiz Salgado Guimarães and the delimitation of the field of studies in historiografy in the Brazil

Abstract

Text of homage, it tries to situate the importance of the opus and the academic work of Manoel Guimarães Luiz Salgado, Brazilian historian who died in 2010, to the consolidation of the field of studies in the historiography of the Brazilian University. Defining him as a master, and a master of rigor, the text seeks to evaluate the innovative aspects of the work developed by Professor Manoel Luiz Salgado Guimarães as well as indicating the paths that were opened by his activism in the fields of teaching and research. It addresses the many facets of his work and strives to draw a profile, not only the academic, but the public man, the citizen, and why not, of the friend who was fundamental in his writings, with their classes, with their orientation activities, for the work and lives of many who knew him. This is a text that seeks to mourn, as best it is possible, making the death of someone stimulus for life, for the continuity of an inheritance, providing responsibility on those who are supposed to continue the unfinished work, recasting life in that who left us alive an important part of himself: his thought.