José Maria Rodrigues

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José Maria Rodrigues (born June 27, 1857 in Gondim , † January 20, 1942 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese Romanist and Lusitanist .

life and work

Rodrigues studied from 1878 to 1886 at the University of Coimbra , first three years of law, then theology. He was ordained a priest. In 1888 he received his doctorate and taught Hebrew until 1895. Then he went to Lisbon as a high school director and was a private tutor in the royal family, a. a. of the later King Manuel II (Portugal) . In 1902 he switched to the Curso Superior de Letras, the forerunner of the Faculdade de Letras of the University of Lisbon founded in 1911 , where he first taught classical philology, but devoted his publications exclusively to Camões , and from 1925 until his retirement in 1933, the newly created Camões chair (Cadeira de Estudos Camonianos) occupied (successor: Hernâni Cidade ).

Rodrigues was a member of the Academia Real das Ciências (1912, from 1923 to 1927 head of the "Classe de Letras") and an honorary doctorate from the University of Coimbra . A street in Lisbon is named after him.

Works

  • Fontes dos Lusíadas, Coimbra 1905, 1979
  • Camões ea Infanta D. Maria, Coimbra 1910
  • Algumas observações a uma edição comentada dos Lusíadas, Coimbra 1915
  • (Ed.) Camões, Os Lusíadas 1921, 1928, 1931
  • Lição inaugural da Cadeira de Estudos Camonianos. Importância e dificuldades destes estudos, Coimbra 1925
  • Introdução aos autos de Camões, Coimbra, 1931Os Lusíadas de Luís de Camões / edição nacional / Lisboa: Imprensa nacional de Lisboa, 1931
  • (with Afonso Lopes Vieira ) Camões, Líricas, 1932
  • Pontos de contacto entre a linguagem do "D. Quixote" ea de "Os Lusíadas", Coimbra 1931
  • A Tese da Infanta nas Líricas de Camões, Coimbra 1933–1934

literature

  • Hernâni Cidade, "Prof. Doutor José Maria Rodrigues", in: Revista da Faculdade de Letras [da Universidade] de Lisboa 8, 1942, pp. 6-11
  • Jacinto do PradoCoelho, Elogio histórico de José Maria Rodrigues, in: Lisboa. Academia das Ciências, “Memórias”. Classe de Letras, Tomo VIII, 1963
  • José Maria Rodrigues, Estudos sobre Os lusíadas, ed. by Evanildo Bechara, Aníbal Pinto de Castro and Maria do Céu Fraga, Rio de Janeiro 2010 (first 1991, 2007)

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personal data
SURNAME Rodrigues, José Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese Romanist and Lusitanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Gondim
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1942
Place of death Lisbon