Mário Castelo Branco Barreto

Mário Castelo Branco Barreto (born March 17, 1879 in Rio de Janeiro , † September 9, 1931 ibid) was a Brazilian Romance scholar , Lusitanist and grammarian.

life and work

Mário Barreto, son of Fausto Barreto (1852-1915, professor at the Colégio Pedro II ), studied law, but then went to secondary schools as a Portuguese teacher, most recently at the military academy (Colégio Militar). In 1924 he took over the magazine Revista de filologia portuguesa founded by Sílvio Tibiriçá de Almeida and continued to run it until December 1925. He was run over by a cyclist and died as a result.

Barreto's numerous short articles on the Portuguese language, most of which appeared in newspapers, were collected in seven volumes. He was a corresponding member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa . The Academia Brasileira de Filologia , founded in 1944, gave the Cadeira (academy chair) number 38 its name.

Works

• Estudos da Língua Portuguesa , Rio de Janeiro 1903
• Novos Estudos da Língua Portuguesa , Rio de Janeiro 1911, 1921, 1980
• Novíssimos Estudos da Língua Portuguesa , Rio de Janeiro 1914, 1980
• Factos da Língua Portuguesa. Correio de consulentes , Rio de Janeiro 1916, 1954
• De Gramática e de Linguagem. Correio de consulentes , 2 vol., Rio de Janeiro 1922, 1955
• (Translator and ed.) Montesquieu , Cartas Persas , Rio de Janeiro 1923
• Através do Dicionário e da Gramática , Rio de Janeiro 1927, 1954
• Últimos Estudos , ed. by Cândido Jucá, Rio de Janeiro 1944, 1986

literature

• Índice Alfabético e Crítico da Obra de Mário Barreto , ed. by Cândido Jucá, Rio de Janeiro 1981 (with appreciation)
• João Alves Pereira Penha, Filólogos Brasileiros , Franca 2002, pp. 49–54

Web links

• Literature by and about Mário Castelo Branco Barreto in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://www.filologia.org.br/viiicnlf/homenageado.html (bio-bibliographic note, Portuguese)