Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Alexander Louis Teixeira de Mattos San Payo y Mendes , known as Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, was a DutchEnglish journalist, literary critic and publisher, who gained his greatest fame as a translator.

The Teixeira de Mattos Sampaio e Mendes family was of Portuguese Jewish origin, having been driven out of Portugal to the Netherlands by Holy Office persecution. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos was born as a Dutch Protestant to an English mother and a Dutch father, inheriting the Dutch title of Jonkheer. In 1874, when he was nine years old, he and his family moved from Amsterdam to England. There, he studied under Monsignor Thomas John Capel and converted to Roman Catholicism. He then studied at the Kensington Catholic Public School and at the Jesuit school Beaumont College.

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