Manuel Rodrigues Lapa

Manuel Rodrigues Lapa (born April 22, 1897 in Anadia ; † March 28, 1989 ibid) was a Portuguese Romanist , Lusitanist , Brazilianist and Galicist .

life and work

Lapa received her doctorate in 1930 (after an eight-month study visit to Paris) at the University of Lisbon with the work Das Origens da Poesia Lírica em Portugal na Idade Média . In 1935 he had to vacate his chair for political reasons and switched to private education and journalism, but remained in research and in 1945 became a corresponding member of the Real Academia Galega in A Coruña . He was arrested in 1949 and only released on bail.

From 1957 he taught at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte in Brazil and took up residence there. From 1960 he lived in Rio de Janeiro. In 1962 he returned to Portugal.

After Salazar was overthrown in 1974, his life's work was honored in Portugal. On his 80th birthday in 1977, the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa congratulated him . He received a Festschrift from 1983 to 1984 and the Order of Infante Dom Henrique (Grand Cross) in 1985 , and an honorary doctorate from the University of Aveiro in 1988 . A school in Anadia bears his name.

Works

• A Cultura Moral eo Ensino da Língua Francesa , Lisbon 1921 (61 pages)
• Liçôes de literatura portuguesa. Época medieval , Lisbon 1934 (numerous editions)
• Estilística da língua portuguesa , Coimbra 1945 (numerous editions, including in Brazil)
• As «Cartas Chilenas». Um Problema Histórico e Filológico , Rio de Janeiro 1958
• Vida e obra de Alvarenga Peixoto [1744-1793], Rio de Janeiro 1960
• Vocabulário galego-português , Vigo 1965, 1970 (108 pages)
• Miscelânea de língua e literatura portuguesa medieval , Rio de Janeiro 1965, Coimbra 1982
• Estudos galego-portugueses por uma Galiza renovada , Lisbon 1979
• As minhas razões. Memórias de um idealista que quis endireitar o mundo , Coimbra 1983

Editorial activities (selection)

• Diogo de Couto , O Soldado prático , Lisbon 1937
• Amadis de Gaula , Lisbon 1937
• João de Barros (Historian) , Panegíricos (Panegírico de D. João III e da Infanta D. Maria), Lisbon 1937
• Luis de Sousa , Anais de D. Joao III , Lisbon 1938
• Afonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria , Lisbon 1939
• António das Chagas, Cartas Espirituais , Lisbon 1939
• Crestomatía arcaica, Lisbon 1940
• Historiadores quinhentistas , Lisbon 1942
• Tomás Antônio Gonzaga , Obras completas , 2 vol., Rio de Janeiro 1957
• Francisco de Sá de Miranda , Obras completas , Lisbon 1960
• Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer dos cancioneiros medievais galego-portugueses , Vigo 1965

literature

• Homenagem a Manuel Rodrigues Lapa , 2 vols., In: Boletim de Filologia 28–29, 1983–1984 (with appreciation and list of publications)
• Ivo Castro, “Manuel Rodrigues Lapa”, in: Biblos. Enciclopédia Verbo das Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa , Vol. 2, Lisbon 1997
• Correspondência de Rodrigues Lapa . Selecção, 1929–1985, ed. by Maria Alegria Marques et al., Coimbra 1997
• Manuel Rodrigues Lapa, Cartas a Francisco Fernández del Riego sobre a cultura galega , Vigo 2001 (correspondence)

Web links

• Literature by and about Manuel Rodrigues Lapa in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Luís Prista: Biografias - Manuel Rodrigues Lapa . In: História da língua portuguesa em linha . (Portuguese, cvc.instituto-camoes.pt [accessed May 17, 2018]). (Biographical note, with picture)
• Carlos Loures, José Ferraz Diogo: Manuel Rodrigues Lapa, paladino da língua portuguesa e exemplo de cidadania . In: A Viagem dos Argonautas . June 27, 2014 (Portuguese, aviagemdosargonautas.net [accessed May 17, 2018]). (Biographical note, detailed, with pictures)