O objetivo do trabalho é analisar o jornal Centro Academico , publicado entre 1872 e 1873 por alunos da Faculdade de Medicina e Cirurgia do Rio de Janeiro e por alunos da Escola Central de Engenharia do Exército, como centro difusor de ideias republicanas durante o século XIX. Esse periódico diagnosticava o Império Brasileiro e, a partir disso, apresentava um prognóstico para o futuro. O Centro Academico foi um dos primeiros jornais publicados no país durante o século XIX a defender explicitamente a República e a manter nos seus quadros defensores dessa forma de governo. O trabalho mapeia os editores do jornal e os autores que escreviam os artigos, a fim de melhor compreender as temáticas discutidas e a maneira como cada autor pensa o republicanismo. Nesse jornal podem ser captados os principais pontos do diagnóstico que os alunos faziam do Império brasileiro, a saber: a falta de legitimidade da monarquia para concretizar reformas em diversas áreas necessárias ao desenvolvimento do país, sobretudo aquelas relativas ao ensino superior, que se encontrava ministrado em poucas instituições que eram, mesmo assim, mal distribuídas geograficamente e com baixa qualidade na formação ofertada. O jornal indica que a única solução para esses problemas apontados é a adoção da República como forma de governo.
Our aim is to analize the newspaper Centro Academico as a space where Republican ideas were propagated. This newspaper was published between 1872 and 1873 by a group composed of 24 students from two of the imperial colleges that existed at the Corte, the Faculdade de Medicina e Cirurgia, which formed professionals related to the practice of medicine, and the Escola Central do Exército which, until 1874, formed exclusively professionals related to military engineering. The Centro Acadeêmico was one of the first newspapers published in Brazil during the nineteenth century to explicitly defend the Republic and to maintain in its cadres defenders of this form of government. . In the mapping carried out, we focused on the journal’s editors and authors and the themes discussed as well, so we can understand the themes discussed and how each of the actors think about Republicanism. Their editors made a diagnosis of the Empire of Brazil and, from there, proposed solutions to the problems encountered. The main points of the students’ diagnosis of the Brazilian Empire were, namely: the lack of legitimacy of the monarchy to carry out reforms in several areas necessary for the country’s development, especially those related to higher education, which was few institutions that were, to worsen, poorly distributed geographically and with low quality in the training offered. The main points of the students’ diagnosis of the Brazilian Empire were, namely: the lack of legitimacy of the monarchy to carry out reforms in several areas necessary for the country’s development, especially those related to higher education, which was few institutions that were, to worsen, poorly distributed geographically and with low quality in the training offered
