Cândido de Figueiredo

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Cândido de Figueiredo (born September 19, 1846 in Lobão da Beira , † September 26, 1925 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese poet, Romanist , Lusitanist , grammarian and lexicographer.

Life

Figueiredo studied law in Coimbra and established himself as a lawyer in Lisbon in 1876. He held various functions in the school inspection, as well as the judiciary and civil administration. From 1893 he worked for Bernardino Machado . He was a corresponding member of several academies in Portugal and Brazil.

His dictionary of Portuguese , which has had numerous editions since 1899, is important. In addition, he wrote language didactic and language maintenance works, as well as educational works on literature, history, geography and medicine, as well as his own poetry and prose.

Works

Romance Studies

  • Homens e letras. Galeria de poetas contemporaneos , Lisbon 1881
  • Nôvo diccionário da língua portuguêsa , 2 vols., Lisbon 1899, 781 + 892 pages; 25th edition ud T. Grande dicionário da língua portuguesa , 2 vol., Venda Nova 1996, 2865 pages
  • Os estrangeirismos , Lisbon 1902; 6th edition, 2 vols., 1956 (vol. 1); 4th edition 1957 (vol. 2),
  • O que se nicht deve dizer. Bosquejos e notas de filologia portuguesa ou consultório popular de enfermidades da linguagem , Lisbon 1903 (last 1955)
  • Gramática sintética da língua portuguesa , Lisbon 1916, 8th edition, 1961, 275 pages
  • Novas reflexoes sôbre á Lingua portuguesa , Lisbon 1917, 1923
  • C ombates sem sangue em favor da língua portuguesa , Lisbon 1925

Other works

  • Morte de Yaginadatta. Episodio do poema epico O Ramayana. Versos portuguezes , Coimbra 1873 ( dedicated to Friedrich Max Müller )
  • O poema da miseria. Canticos e threnos , Coimbra 1874
  • L isboa no anno três mil.Revelações arqueólogicas, obtidas pela hipnose e publicadas , Lisbon 1892, 2003 (time review )
  • Peregrinações (1863 a 1905), Porto 1908 (seal)

literature

  • 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: 1729–1730)

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personal data
SURNAME Figueiredo, Cândido de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese poet, Romanist, Lusitanist, grammarian and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Lobão da Beira
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1925
Place of death Lisbon