Otoniel Mota

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Otoniel Mota , also: Othoniel Motta , (born April 16, 1878 in Porto Feliz , São Paulo (state) ; † August 14, 1951 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian classical philologist, Romance scholar , Lusitanist , grammarian and translator.

Life

Otoniel Mota studied at the seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil and in 1910 became pastor and professor of exegesis and biblical archeology, as well as high school teacher for Portuguese in the state of São Paulo. In 1924 he returned to the city of São Paulo and founded the Associação Evangélica Beneficente (AEB, Evangelical Charity Association), which is still flourishing today, to support those suffering from tuberculosis.

From 1936 to 1939, Mota was the first Brazilian professor of Portuguese (successor: Francisco da Silveira Bueno ) at the University of São Paulo, which was newly founded in 1934 (as the successor to the Portuguese Francisco da Luz Rebelo Gonçalves ). He headed the São Paulo City Library.

Mota was a member of the Academia Paulista de Letras (Cadeira 17).

Fonts

  • Ensaio linguistico , Rio de Janeiro 1905
  • Lições de português , São Paulo 1915, 1941
  • O meu idioma , Campinas 1916
  • (Ed.) Luís de Camões , Os Lusiadas , São Paulo 1917
  • Algum riso, muito siso , Campinas 1918
  • Selvas e choças , São Paulo 1927
  • Israel. Sua terra e seu livro , São Paulo 1930
  • Chave da lingua . Primeiras noções de gramatica ministradas á infancia, São Paulo 1933
  • Horas philologicas , São Paulo 1937
  • Perde-Ganha , Rio de Janeiro 1937
  • (Ed.) Seleta moderna , São Paulo 1940 (literary anthology)
  • Do rancho ao palacio. Evoluçao da civilizaçao paulista , São Paulo 1941

literature

  • Henrique Maurer Junior: Obituary "Professor Otoniel Mota". In: Revista de História 3, 1951, pp. 478–479 (Portuguese; URL: http: //www.revistas.uSão Paulo.br/revhistoria/article/view/68402/70942)

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personal data
SURNAME Mota, Otoniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mota, Otoniel de Campos; Motta, Othoniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian classical philologist, Romance scholar, Lusitanist, grammarian and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto Feliz , São Paulo (State)
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1951
Place of death São Paulo