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Jorge D'Escragnolle Taunay Filho

Brazilian diplomat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ15859287 ↗
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Jorge D'Escragnolle Taunay Filho (born June 1, 1947 in Paris) is a former Brazilian diplomat.

Biography

Jorge d'Escragnolle Taunay Filho is the son of Mary Elizabeth Penna Costa and Jorge D'Escragnolle Taunay. On May 19, 1987, he was appointed secretary of legation in Lisbon and on June 22, 1990 in Harare. From September 9, 1999 to August 9, 2006 he was ambassador to Luanda and then headed the South America department of Itamaraty Palace until November 25, 2007. He was then appointed ambassador to Lima until 2011.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 1987, 1990, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-06-01. For this dossier, Jorge, D'Escragnolle and Taunay is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jorge D'Escragnolle Taunay Filho” 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.