Domingos Vieira

Domingos Vieira (born May 2, 1775 in Porto , † May 4, 1857 in Baião (Portugal) ) was a Portuguese Augustinian monk, theologian, Romanist , Lusitanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Vieira studied theology in Coimbra . He received his doctorate there and taught in Coimbra and Braga . In old age he retired with his library and his manuscripts to Mesquinhata near Baião .

Vieira left behind extensive materials for a large dictionary of Portuguese, which was published 15 years after his death on 5430 pages with the main help of Francisco Adolfo Coelho , but then saw no further editions.

Works

• Grande diccionario portuguez, ou Thesouro da lingua portuguesa , pelo Dr. free Domingos Vieira. Publicação feita sobre o manuscripto original, inteiramente revisto e consideravelmente augmentado, 5 vols., Porto 1871-1874 (1/248 + 836 pages, 2/80 + 1159 pages, 3/1360 pages, 4/1037 pages, 5/1038 pages ; Introduction I, “Sobre a lingua portugueza”, by F. Adolpho Coelho. Introduction II, “Sobre a litteratura portugueza”, by Teófilo Braga )
• Ordem dos eremitas de Santo Agostinho em Portugal (1256-1834) . Edicão da colleccão de memórias de Frei Domingos Vieira, OESA, ed. by Carlos A. Moreira Azevedo, Lisbon 2011 (pp. 12–13, biographical information about Domingos Vieira)

literature

• Maria L. Carneiro Pinto, Por terras de Baião , Porto 1949
• Marques Gastão, Frei Doutor Domingos Luís Vieira autor do Grande diccionário portuguez ou Thesouro da lingua portugueza , Lisbon 1984
• 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: 1728)

Web links

• Literature by and about Domingos Vieira in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)