Francisco Júlio de Caldas Aulete

Francisco Júlio de Caldas Aulete (* 1826 in Lisbon ; † 23 May 1878 ibid) was a Portuguese politician, didactician, Romance scholar , Lusitanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Caldas Aulete was a high school teacher in Lisbon, and from 1869 to 1872 a member of the Portuguese assembly of estates . He published numerous didactic works on the Portuguese language and literature, including a grammar (1864).

Caldas Aulete left behind a dictionary manuscript that was edited by António Lopes dos Santos Valente three years after his death in 1881. After the dictionary had only reached three Portuguese editions in 70 years, despite its lexicographical quality, it was considerably more successful in Brazil from 1958 and has been revised up to the present day.

Works

dictionary

• Diccionario contemporaneo da língua Portuguesa , 2 vols., Lisbon 1881, 1913 pages
  • 2nd edition, Lisbon 1925 (edited by José Timóteo da Silva Bastos, 1852–1939)
  • 3rd edition, 2 vols., Lisbon 1948–1952, 1418 + 1508 pages (edited by Vasco Botelho de Amaral)
  • 4th edition, Rio de Janeiro 1958
  • 5th edition, 5 vols., Rio de Janeiro 1964, 4438 pages (edited by Hamilcar de Garcia)
  • 6th edition, Rio de Janeiro 1974
  • 7th edition, Rio de Janeiro 1980
  • 8th edition, Rio de Janeiro 1987
• Minidicionário contemporâneo da língua portuguesa , Rio de Janeiro 2004
• Caldas Aulete. Dicionário escolar ilustrado , Rio de Janeiro 2005
• N ovíssimo Aulete. Dicionário contemporâneo da língua portuguesa , Rio de Janeiro 2011, 1456 pages (edited by Paulo Geiger)
• Dicionário escolar da língua portuguesa , Rio de Janeiro 2012

Other works

• Grammatica nacional , Lisbon 1864, 96 pages; 1875, 144 pages (didactic)

literature

• Dieter Woll : 181. Portuguese Lexicography. In: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of the volume. Edited by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta. Berlin / New York 1990, pp. 1723-1735 (here: pp. 1729-1730).
• Giovana Iliada Giacomini: O discurso do Dicionário contemporâneo da língua portuguesa, de Caldas Aulete: de 1881 até a atualidade. In: Revista Virtual de Estudos da Linguagem - ReVEL. Volume 4, No. 6, 2006, ISSN  1678-8931 , pp. 1-13. (PDF; 86.8 kB), Portuguese.

Web links

• Literature by and about Francisco Júlio de Caldas Aulete in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin