Alzira Costa
Wife of Portuguese politician (1875–1970)
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Alzira de Barros de Abreu Costa (20 April 1875 – 21 February 1970) was the wife of Portuguese politician Afonso Costa.
20 April 1875
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| Born | Alzira Coelho de Campos de Barros de Abreu 20 April 1875 |
| Died | 21 February 1970 (aged 94) |
| Known for | Spouse of the Prime Minister of Portugal (1913―1914, 1915―1915 and 1917) |
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Biography
Alzira de Barros de Abreu was born in 1875, in Oliveira do Hospital, in Coimbra, the daughter of Albano Mendes de Abreu, a medical doctor, and his wife, Emília de Barros Coelho de Campos.[1] She was the sister of the writer and politician José de Barros Mendes de Abreu, who was born on 20 July 1878.[2]
She was also the sister of António de Barros Mendes de Abreu (1880–1960), a lawyer, and the aunt of the dancer and choreographer Margarida de Abreu (1915–2006) and Maria Helena von Hoffmann de Abreu (1920–2020), a piano teacher and a pioneer of yoga in Portugal, who married João de Freitas Branco, the son of the composer Luís de Freitas Branco.[3]
She married Afonso Costa in the New Cathedral of Coimbra, on 15 September 1892.[1] In 1916, she was one of the founders of the Portuguese Women's Crusade.[4]
She died at the age of 94, in Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Lisbon.[1]
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