Rafael Bluteau

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Padre Dom Raphael Bluteau

Rafael Bluteau (born December 4, 1638 in London , † February 13, 1734 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese Theatine monk , Romanist and Lusitanist of French origin.

life and work

Bluteau grew up in London until the age of six. Then his French parents returned to France and Bluteau attended Jesuit schools in Paris , La Flèche , Reims and again Paris (Collège de Clermont, now Lycée Louis-le-Grand ). Around 1660 he joined the Theatinians and was sent to the novitiate in Florence . After taking his vows in 1661, he studied in Verona , Rome and Paris. There he received his doctorate in theology .

In 1668 the Order sent him to Lisbon. He worked there in the vicinity of Queen Maria Francisca Elisabeth of Savoy , fell from grace after her death in 1683 and went to France. In 1704 he returned to Portugal, was banished to the Alcobaça monastery and was only able to live in Lisbon again from 1713. King John V (Portugal) ordered his membership in the newly founded Academia Real da História Portuguesa in 1720 .

Bluteau is best known as the author of the first large dictionary of the Portuguese language, the Vocabulario Portuguez e Latino , of which he created ten volumes alone. The original motive was that he was not able to speak Portuguese in 1668 and wrote the dictionary for his own language learning. The first volume appeared after 44 years, the last after 60 years when it was already 90 years old.

Bluteau's dictionary was developed into the first modern dictionary of Portuguese by the Brazilian António de Morais Silva (1755–1824) at the end of the 18th century .

Works

  • Vocabulario Portuguez e Latino , aulico, anatomico, architectonico, bellico, botanico brasilico, comico, critico, chimico, dogmatico, dialectico, dendrologico, ecclesiastico, etymologico, economico, florifero, forense, frutifero, geographico, geometrico, homonymico, hydrographico, hierologico, ichtyologico, indico, isagogico, laconico, liturgico, lithologico, medico, musico, meteorologico, nautico, numerico, neoterico, ortographico, optico, ornithologico, poetico, philologico, pharmaciutico, quidditativo, qualitativeo, quantitativo, rethorico, romanico symbolico, synonymico, sylabico, teologico, terapeutico, technologico, uranologico, xenophonico, zoologico autorizado com exemplos dos melhores escriptores portuguezes e latinos, e oferecido a el-rey de Portugal D. João V, 10 vols., Coimbra, then Lisbon 1712– 1728, Hildesheim 2002
    • A, 1712 (698 pages)
    • B – C, 1712 (216 + 654 pages)
    • D – E, 1713 (319 + 407 pages)
    • F – I, 1713 (745 pages)
    • K – N, 1716 (778 pages)
    • O – P, 1720 (839 pages)
    • R – S, 1720 (824 pages)
    • T – Z, 1721 (652 + 189 pages)
    • Supplement 1, 1727 (568 pages)
    • Supplement 2, 1728 (592 pages)
  • Primicias evangelicas, ou, Sermoens e panegyricos , Lisbon 1676, 1685, 1732–1733, 1782
  • Instrucçam sobre a cultura das amoreiras, e criaçaõ dos bichos da seda , Lisbon 1678, Coimbra 1769

literature

  • Hernâni Cidade, Dom Raphael Bluteau , Paris 1938
  • Dieter Woll, 181. Portuguese Lexicography, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1990, pp. 1723–1735 (here: 1726–1727)
  • João Paulo Silvestre, Bluteau e as Origens da Lexicografia Moderna , Lisbon 2008
  • João Paulo Silvestre, A língua iluminada. Antologia do Vocabulário de Rafael Bluteau , Lisbon 2013

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