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Gervásio Pires Ferreira (26 June 1765 – 9 March 1838) was a Brazilian merchant and politician.
Early life[edit]
Gervásio Pires was born in the freguesia of São Frei Pedro Gonçalves (commonly called Corpo Santo), Recife, in the early morning of 26 June 1765, being the twelfth child of the rich Portuguese trader Domingos Pires Ferreira and his wife D. Joana Maria de Deus, born in Pernambuco. After finishing elementary school here, his parents made him go to the College of Mafra, in Portugal, where he studied humanities, moved to Coimbra, enrolling in the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra.