Aida Freudenthal (1940-2024)

It was with great sadness that we received the news of the passing of Aida Freudenthal (1940-2024) on February 2. We cannot but thank her for the privilege of her friendship and the discreet and supportive way in which she accompanied GIEIPC-IP from the very beginning. She was the first researcher to donate us a bibliography, unpublished and published studies, and research materials, that will hopefully find a new home in a future documentation roomof the group. Born in Mozambique, Freudenthal participated in the Casa dos Estudantes do Império during her studies in Lisbon and lived in Angola, where she had the opportunity to participate in the educational reform after the country’s independence. In Portugal, she worked as a researcher at the IICT. As a historian, she stood out for her rigor, her synthetic writing style, and her complex point of view. She was the author of pioneering studies, published and unpublished, on the Portuguese and African press and anti-colonial resistance, among others.