Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Viana
Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Viana (born January 6, 1840 in Lisbon ; † September 13, 1914 ibid) was a Portuguese Romanist , Lusitanist , phonetician and lexicographer.
life and work
Viana was the son of a famous theater man at the time (Epifânio Aniceto Gonçalves Viana, 1813–1857). Because of the simultaneous death of his father and older brother, at 17 the burden of family maintenance was on his shoulders; he had to forego the official studies he was aiming for and was a customs officer and private scholar all his life. He worked as an autodidact in all the languages available to him (several dozen) and attended lectures by the classical philologist António José Viale (1806-1889) and the orientalist Guilherme de Vasconcelos Abreu (1842-1917). His special passion was the phonetics, orthography and lexicography of Portuguese, in the area of which he was in contact with numerous specialist representatives. He wrote school grammars in English and French and translated Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther into Portuguese.
At the beginning of its international fame was the essay "Essai de phonétique et de phonologie de la langue portugaise d'après le dialecte actuel de Lisbonne" in the famous journal Romania (12, 1883, pp. 29-98; Lisbon 1941; improved in: Estudos de fonética portuguesa , 1973, pp. 83-152).
Viana was a corresponding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (1910).
Works
- (Translator) Goethe, Mágoas de Werther , Paris 1885
- Exposição da pronúncia normal portuguesa para uso de nacionais e estrangeiros , Lisbon 1892
- Portugais. Phonétique et phonologie, morphologie, textes , Leipzig / New York 1903
- Ortografia Nacional. Simplificação e uniformização sistemática das ortografias portuguesas , Lisbon 1904
- Apostilas aos dicionários portugueses , 2 vols., Lisbon 1906
- Vocabulário ortográfico e ortoépico da língua portuguesa , Lisbon 1909, Rio de Janeiro 1932
- (with other) Bases para a unificação da ortografia que deve ser adoptada nas escolas e publicações oficiais , Lisbon 1911
- Vocabulário ortográfico e remissivo da língua portuguesa , Paris 1912, 7th edition 1932
- Palestras filolójicas , Lisbon 1910, 2nd ext. Ed., Lisbon 1931 (preface by Manuel Múrias)
literature
- AR Gonçalves Viana, Estudos de fonética portuguesa , Lisbon 1973 (preface by Luís Filipe Lindley Cintra ; introduction by José A. Peral Ribeiro, with bio-bibliography; URL: http://purl.pt/192/3/#/34 )
Web links
- Literature by and about Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Viana in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/hlp/biografias/gviana.html (bio-bibliographic note, Portuguese, with picture)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Viana, Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gonçalves Viana, Aniceto dos Reis; Gonçalves Viana, AR |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese Romanist, Lusitanist, phonetician and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1914 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |