Gladstone Chaves de Melo

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Gladstone Chaves de Melo (born June 12, 1917 in Campanha, Minas Gerais , † December 7, 2001 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian Romanist , Lusitanist , Brazilianist and linguist.

life and work

Melo was a student of Augusto Magne and was assistant to Sousa da Silveira (1883-1967) at the Chair of Portuguese of the Faculdade Nacional de Filosofia, later Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro . He received his doctorate in 1946.

Melo was a professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense , Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He also taught in Juiz de Fora , Coimbra (Portugal) and Tübingen.

Melo was a member of the state parliament, at the time of the state of Guanabara , and city councilor of Rio de Janeiro, as well as cultural attaché of the Brazilian embassy in Lisbon.

Melo was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Filologia and the Academia Portuguesa da História . He was Commander in the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique . He was an honorary doctor of the University of Coimbra (1993).

Works

  • A Língua do Brasil , 1946, 1971 (Contents: A Língua Portuguesa no Brasil. A Influência Tupi. A Influência Africana. A Língua Popular. A nossa Pronúncia. Língua e Estilo. A Nosso Vocabulário. A Língua Literária)
  • Dicionários Portugueses , 1947 (77 pages)
  • A Língua eo Estilo de Ruy Barbosa , 1950
  • (with Serafim da Silva Neto ) Conceito e Método da Filologia , 1951 (preface by Sousa da Silveira)
  • Iniciação à Filologia Portuguesa , 1951, 1957
    • Iniciação à Filologia e à Lingüística Portuguesa , 1971 (most recently 1988).
  • Alencar ea "língua brasileira" , 1951, 1972
  • Novo Manual de Análise Sintática , 1954, 1967
  • Gramática Fundamental da Língua Portuguesa , 1968 (most recently 1994)
  • Origem, formação e aspectos da cultura brasileira , 1974
  • Ensaio de Estilística da Língua Portuguesa , 1976, 1979
  • Os “Brasileirismos” de Frei Luis de Sousa , 1985
  • A Excelência Vernácula de Antônio Gonçalves Dias , Rio de Janeiro 1992

Editorial activity

literature

  • Miscelânea em homenagem ao Prof. Dr. Gladstone Chaves de Melo , ed. by Maria Regina Kopschitz de Barros et al., Rio de Janeiro 1995 (including detailed bio-bibliographic information, Portuguese)

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personal data
SURNAME Melo, Gladstone Chaves de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian Romanist, Lusitanist, Brazilianist and Linguist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Campanha, Minas Gerais
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2001
Place of death Rio de Janeiro