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Astrojildo Pereira

Brazilian politician (1890-1965)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ902495 ↗
Source-derived summary

Astrojildo Pereira Duarte Silva (8 November 1890 – 21 November 1965) was a Brazilian politician, writer, literary critic, and journalist. He was a founding member of the Brazilian Communist Party in 1922.

Editorial summary

“Astrojildo Pereira” enters the record as brazilian politician (1890-1965). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Astrojildo, Pereira and Brazilian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1890, 1965, 1922—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1890-10-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Astrojildo, Pereira and Brazilian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Astrojildo Pereira” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Astrojildo, Pereira and Brazilian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q902495. VIAF identifies the subject as 100277294. The Library of Congress control number is n81149208. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1890, 1965 and 1922.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Astrojildo Pereira” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.