Uma Universidade que se renova

Abstract

The life story of D. Francisco de Lemos is intertwined with a crucial moment in the history of the University of Coimbra. Having completed there his academic education before 1772, he would play a major role in the preparation and the implementation of the university reform whose inception was the granting of the new statutes, in September of that year. The reform was based on previous institutional and economic grounds which underwent almost no change; but it operated a revolution in the curricula and the teaching methods. We will try here to draw a summary picture which encompasses these two realities that illuminate each other.