Augusto Epifânio da Silva Dias

Augusto Epifânio da Silva Dias (born April 7, 1841 in Lisbon , † November 30, 1916 ibid) was a Portuguese classical philologist, Romance scholar and grammarian.

life and work

From 1864 Dias was a grammar school teacher for Portuguese , first in Santarém , from 1867 to 1881 in Porto , then in Lisbon. In 1896 he switched to a professorship for Latin and Greek at the University of Lisbon (Curso Superior de Letras, forerunner of the Faculdade de letras founded in 1911; retired in 1913).

A street in Lisbon is named after him.

Fonts (selection)

• Grammatica practica da lingua portugueza , Porto 1870 (considered to be the first scientific grammar of Portuguese)
• (Translator) Johan Nicolai Madvig , Grammatica latina para uso das escholas , Porto 1872
• (Ed.) Obras de Cristovão Falcão , Porto 1893
• (Ed.) Duarte Pacheco Pereira , Esmeraldo de situ orbis , Lisbon 1905, 1975
• (Ed.) Os Lusíadas de Luís de Camões , Porto 1910, 1916, 1972
• Syntaxe Historica Portuguesa , Lisbon 1918, 5th edition 1970 (posthumous)

literature

• José Leite de Vasconcelos , Epiphanio Dias. Sua vida e labor scientifico , Lisbon 1922
• Rebelo Gonçalves, “Epifânio Dias”, in: Revista da faculdade de letras , Lisboa 1934–1935 (1936): pp. 1–23
• José Cardoso, Epifânio Dias e as fontes d'Os Lusíadas , Braga 1982, 1994
• Rolf Kemmler / Barbara Schäfer-Prieß, History of Reflection on Romance Languages: Portuguese, in: Romance Language History , ed. by Gerhard Ernst et al., Berlin / New York 2003, pp. 280–297 (here: 284)

Web links

• Literature by and about Augusto Epifânio da Silva Dias in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
• http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/hlp/biografias/epdias.html (bio-bibliographic note, Portuguese, with picture)
• http://memoria.ul.pt/index.php/Dias,_Augusto_Epif%C3%A2nio_da_Silva (data from the University of Lisbon, Portuguese)
• http://ctlf.ens-lyon.fr/n_fiche.asp?num=3314 (about the grammar of 1870, French)