Duarte Nunes de Leão
Duarte Nunes de Leão (* around 1530 in Évora ; † 1608 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese legal scholar and historian.
Life
Nunes de Leão was the son of João Nunes, a Jewish professor of medicine . He studied law at the University of Coimbra and wrote basic works on the Portuguese language and spelling. He worked on the King Chronicles of Alfonso I (Portugal) to Alfonso V new.
Works
- 1569: Leis extrauagantes
- 1569: Annotacões sobre as Ordenacões dos cinquo liuros que pelas leis extrauagantes são reuogadas ou interpretadas
- 1576: Orthographia da lingoa portuguesa
- 1606: Origem da lingoa portvgvesa
- 1610: Descrição do Reino de Portugal
literature
- Dicionário Enciclopédico da História de Portugal. - Lisbon: Publicações Alfa, 1993
- Rolf Kemmler and Barbara Schäfer-Prieß: History of reflection on the Romance languages: Portuguese in An international handbook on the history of Romance languages., Berlin • New York (Walter de Gruyter) 2003, pages 280–297, ISBN 978-3-11 -014694-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Gröber: Outline of the Romance Philology, Volume 2, Part 3 , BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, ISBN 1-115-52332-5, page 341
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leão, Duarte Nunes de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese legal scholar and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1530 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Évora |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1608 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |