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Ernesto Korrodi, Swiss by birth, came to live in Leiria aged 24 when he took up a post as design teacher at the Leiria Industrial Design School. He was to marry Quitéria da Conceição Maia in an unusual ceremony given that Korrodi was a Protestant. He died in Leiria in 1944.

Highly interested in medieval religious and civil architecture, he found in the city the ideal location in which to indulge his vocation.
Indignant at the treatment of the national heritage by the authorities, he set about various historical-archaeological studies of national monuments becoming a leading specialist in monument restoration and an important defender of industrial-art teaching in Portugal.