Mateo Seoane

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Mateo Seoane y Sobral (born September 21, 1791 in Valladolid , † June 1, 1870 ) was a Spanish doctor, politician, Hispanist and lexicographer.

Life

Mateo Seoane y Sobral studied medicine in Salamanca and graduated in 1812. As a liberal, he was denied a university career. During the Trienio Liberal he was a member of the city of Valladolid in 1821 , was sentenced to death and in 1823 went into exile in London for 10 years. On his return he was a recognized hygiene expert and was a member of the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina from its foundation in 1861 .

In London he was responsible for the very successful editing of the Spanish-English dictionary by Giuseppe Baretti and Henry Neuman.

A street in Valladolid is named after him.

Works

medicine

  • Informe acerca de los principales fenómenos observados en la propogacion del cólera indiano por Inglaterra y Escocia , London 1832
  • Instrucciones generales sobre el modo de preservarse del cólera-morbo epidémico, con indicaciones acerca de su método curativo , Madrid 1834

lexicography

  • Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English languages wherein the words are correctly explained, agreeably to their different meanings and a great variety of terms, relating to the arts, sciences, manufactures, merchandise, navigation, and trade, elucidated, thoroughly revised, greatly improved, enlarged by the addition of many thousand words, and the two parts most carefully collated by M. Seoane, 2 vols., London 1831
  • Neuman, Baretti and Seoan'es [sic] Dictionary of the Spanish and English languages : wherein the words are correctly explained, agreeably to their different meanings, and a great variety of terms, 2e ed. Throroughly revised, greatly improved, enlarged by the addition of many thousand words, and the two parts most carefully collated by SH Blanc ( Marie-Jean Blanc Saint-Hilaire ), Paris 1848, Lyon / Madrid 1859

literature

  • Roger Jacob Steiner, 308. Bilingual Lexicography: English-Spanish and Spanish-English, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Third volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann , Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta , Berlin. New York 1991, pp. 2949-2956
  • Enrique Conde Gargollo, Mateo Seoane y Sobral. Vallisoletano, médico, liberal y romántico (1791-1870), Zamora Monte Casino 1976
  • José María López Piñero, M. Seoane. La introducción en España del sistema sanitario liberal, 1791-1870 , Madrid 1984

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personal data
SURNAME Seoane, Mateo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seoane y Sobral, Mateo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish doctor, politician, Hispanist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Valladolid
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1870