Augusto Magne

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Augusto Magne (born March 3, 1887 in Mende , † July 21, 1966 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian Jesuit , classical philologist , Romanist , Lusitanist and Medievalist of French origin.

life and work

Magne emigrated to Brazil in 1904 and entered the Jesuit order in Campanha, Minas Gerais province . From 1907 he studied in São Paulo . In 1908 he received Brazilian citizenship. From 1908 to 1916 he studied in Rome and received a doctorate in philology from the Pontifical Gregorian University . In 1920 he stayed in England, from 1921 to 1924 in Vienna, and in 1925 in Spain. Back in Brazil, he became Deputy Director of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Professor of Ancient Greek and Romance Philology. From 1956 until his retirement in 1957 he was a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro .

Magne's most important contribution to Romance philology is the publication of the manuscript A demanda do santo graal , which he discovered in Vienna , the Portuguese version of the medieval novel La Queste del Saint Graal from the Vulgate cycle .

Augusto Magne was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Filologia . He received the Prêmio Machado de Assis in 1951 . The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro has named the research institute Núcleo de Estudos Portugueses Padre Augusto Magne (NEPPAM) after him. A school in Rio de Janeiro bears his name.

Publications

  • Grammatica latina , Rio de Janeiro 1919, 1930
  • A demanda do santo graal , 3 vol., Rio de Janeiro 1944
    • A Demanda do santo Graal . Reprodução fac-similar e transcrição crítica do códice 2594 da Biblioteca Nacional de Viena, 2 vols., Rio de Janeiro 1955-1970
  • (Ed.) Boosco deleitoso . Edição do texto de 1515, com intro., Anotações e glossário. I. Texto crítico, Rio de Janeiro 1950
  • Dicionário da língua portuguesa especialmente dos períodos medieval e clássico , A – AL, 2 vols., Rio de Janeiro 1950–1954
  • Dicionário etimológico da Língua latina. Famílias de palavras e derivaçóes vernáculas . Vol. 1. (A-CR), Rio 1952-1961
  • O Mais antigo documento da língua francesca. Os Juramentos de Estrasburgo , Rio de Janeiro 1955
  • (Ed.) Ludolf von Sachsen / Ludolfo Cartusiano, O Livro de Vita Christi em lingoagem português. Volume I . Edicão fac-similar e crítica do incunábulo de 1495 cotejado com os apógrafos, Rio de Janeiro 1957

literature

  • Jornal do Brasil July 22, 1966, p. 14.
  • V Congresso Brasileiro de Língua e Literatura, de 16 a 20 de julho de 1973. Homenagem a Augusto Magne , ed. by Sociedade Brasileira de Língua e Literatura, Rio de Janeiro 1974.
  • João Alves Pereira Penha: Filólogos brasileiros . Franca 2002, ISBN 85-86996-15-7 , pp. 73-78.

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personal data
SURNAME Magne, Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian religious, classical philologist, Romanist, Lusitanist and Medievalist of French origin
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Mende
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1966
Place of death Rio de Janeiro