Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira
Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira (born May 3, 1910 in Passo de Camaragibe , Alagoas , † February 28, 1989 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian Romance philologist and lexicographer.
Life
Holanda Ferreira (known in Brazil as "Aurélio") graduated from Recife in 1936 with a law degree , became a grammar school teacher for Portuguese and for a short time director of the Maceió city library . In 1938 he went to Rio de Janeiro and was there from 1940 to 1969 Portuguese teacher (with professorial status) at the Colégio Pedro II . From 1939 to 1947 he was secretary of the Revista do Brasil .
From 1941, Holanda Ferreira became interested in the Brazilian vocabulary, collected material over decades and filled his treasures first in the 10th edition of the Pequeno dicionário da língua portuguesa , from 1975 in his own excellent dictionary Novo dicionário da língua portuguesa , whose success comes from the " Aurélio “a synonym for dictionary and made dictionary users of the Brazilians on a broad front with keen interest in the peculiarity of Brazilian Portuguese.
Holanda Ferreira was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Filologia from 1956 and of the Academia Brasileira de Letras from 1961 , chair 30.
Works
Lexicology and Lexicography
- Enriqueça o seu vocabulário , Rio de Janeiro 1958, 4th edition 1984
- Pequeno dicionario brasileiro da lingua portuguesa , 10th edition, Rio de Janeiro 1961, 1287 pages; 11th edition 1974, 1301 pages
- Vocabulário ortográfico brasileiro , Rio de Janeiro 1969, 790 pages
- Novo Dicionário da língua portuguesa , Rio de Janeiro 1975, 1517 pages; 4th edition 2009, 2120 pages
- Dicionário da língua portuguesa , Curitiba 2010, 2222 pages
Other works
- Dois mundos. Contos , Rio de Janeiro 1942, later ud T. O Chapéu de meu pai , 1974
- (Ed.) Os gazeis de Hafiz , Rio de Janeiro 1944
- (Ed. With Paulo Rónai) Mar de histórias. Antologia do conto mundial , 9 vols., Rio de Janeiro 1945–1988
- (Ed.) O romance brasileiro (de 1752 a 1930) , Rio de Janeiro 1952–1953
- (Ed. With Álvaro Lins) Roteiro literário do Brasil e de Portugal. Antologia da língua portuguesa , Rio de Janeiro 1956
- Território lírico. Ensaios , Rio de Janeiro 1958
- Selectaem proso e verso de Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira , ed. by Paulo Rónai, Rio de Janeiro 1979
- (Ed.) Grandes vozes líricas hispano-americanas. Edição bilíngue , Rio de Janeiro 1990
- Linguagem e estilo de Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós e Simões Lopes Neto , Rio de Janeiro 2007
literature
- Gilberto de Macedo, Vida e obra de Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira , Recife 1982
- Dieter Woll, 181. Portuguese Lexicography, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1990, pp. 1723–1735 (here: 1732)
- Revelando mestre Aurélio . Edição comemorativa do centenário de nascimento de Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira em Passo do Camaragibe, cidade do litoral norte de Alagoas, ed. by Enaura Quixabeira Rosa e Silva, Maceió 2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Literature by and about Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Bio-biography of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Portuguese)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holanda Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda; Holanda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian Romance philologist and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Passo de Camaragibe , Alagoas |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1989 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro |