Athos Damasceno Ferreira (Porto Alegre, September 3, 1902 – Porto Alegre, April 14, 1975) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, chronicler, translator, journalist, literary critic, and historian. He is considered the most important historian and chronicler of the city of Porto Alegre, is the founder of art historiography in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and left a major contribution to the state historiography in the fields of culture and society, being a pioneer in the study of several themes. He was an advocate of the revaluation of regionalisms and a renowned poet and novelist, although being little remembered in this area. Career He was the son of João Armando Damasceno Ferreira and Ana Dias da Silva. He did his early studies in religious schools, then studied languages with Ildefonso Gomes and humanities with Henrique Emílio Meyer. Damasceno began law school in Rio de Janeiro, but did not finish it, returning to Porto Alegre and becoming a state employee, working in the Secretariat of the Interior and later in the Secretariat of Education and Culture, where he retired, heading the Board of Letters. In 1917, he began working as a journalist and chronicler, collaborating in magazines and newspapers such as Máscara, Província de São Pedro, Eco do Sul, Ilustração Rio-Grandense, Tribuna Ilustrada, Gazeta do Povo, A Federação, Diário de Notícias, and Correio do Povo. He was also a translator for Editora Globo, one of the founders of the Eduardo Guimarães Foundation, which he came to chair, and a member of the Historical and Geographical Institute of Rio Grande do Sul and the State Folklore Commission. He spent his life in Porto Alegre, city in which he would be the most prolific historian and chronicler. Guilhermino César stated that he produced "the greatest writing of a single man about the capital of Rio Grande do Sul." He left essential works for the knowledge of the city's urban, cultural, and social evolution, besides addressing it in poetry and describing it in his short stories, novels, and his many chronicles. Important works in this group are Poemas da Minha Cidade (poems, 1936), Imagens Sentimentais da Cidade (chronicles, 1940), Jornais Críticos e Humorísticos de Porto Alegre no século XIX (cultural history, 1954), O Teatro em Porto Alegre no século XIX (theater in Porto Alegre in the 19th century, 1954), Palco, Salão e Picadeiro em Porto Alegre no Século XIX, (cultural history, 1956), Sociedades Literárias