Isaac Nicolau Salum

Isaac Nicolau Salum (born March 24, 1913 in Alpinópolis , Minas Gerais , † May 1993 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian Romance scholar and linguist.

life and work

Salum grew up in the country until 1930. He studied theology in São Paulo at the Theological Faculty of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil (graduated in 1940) and Classical Philology and Portuguese at the University of São Paulo (graduated in 1941). He later became the assistant to Theodoro Henrique Maurer and completed his habilitation in 1967 with the text A semana astrológica ea judeo-cristã. Introduçaõ à problemática da nomenclatura semanal romãnica (unpublished). As the successor to his teacher, he became (with the Tesa) A problemática da nomenclatura semanal românica (unpublished) in 1968 there, professor of Romance philology (from 1972 to 1975 also vice dean of the faculty).

Salum introduced modern linguistics to São Paulo Romance Studies but did not publish any books. Like his teacher, he cultivated the teaching of Romanian in a special way .

Works

• (Introduction to) Ferdinand de Saussure , Curso de lingüística geral , São Paulo 1970 (French in: Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 55, 2002, pp. 297–307 and in: Izabel Vilela, Hypothèses de résolution de quelques contradictions saussuriennes , Thèse de doctorat Lyon 2, 2014, pp. 203-214, online)
• (Translator with others) Emile Benveniste , Problemas de lingüística geral , 2 vols., Campinas 1989

literature

• Estudos de filologia e lingüística em homenagem a Isaac Nicolau Salum , São Paulo 1981 (with list of publications)
• Izidoro Blikstein, obituary, Portuguese, in: Revista da Universidade da São Paulo 20, 1993–1994

Web links

• http://historiademuzambinho.blogspot.fr/p/isac-salum.html (short biography, Portuguese, with picture)