Rosário Farâni Mansur Guérios

Rosário Farâni Mansur Guérios (born September 10, 1907 in Curitiba ; † August 31, 1987 ibid) was a Brazilian Romance scholar , Lusitanist , linguist and lexicographer.

life and work

Guérios, whose father spoke Arabic and whose mother spoke Italian, studied law at the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Curitiba (graduated in 1934), taught Portuguese at various institutes in the Brazilian state of Paraná and was professor of Portuguese at the University of Curitiba from 1939 (retired 1979) . His special love was the linguistics of Portuguese and the indigenous languages ​​of Brazil. From 1953 to 1961 he was the founding editor of the Revista Letras magazine at the University of Curitiba. He was a member of the Academia Paranaense de Letras (Cadeira 39) founded in Curitiba in 1936 , as well as a member of the Academia Brasileira de Filologia . He published in Curitiba's newspapers much-read glossaries ud T. Divagações Lingüísticas .

Rosário Farâni Mansur Guérios should not be confused with the legal scholar José Farâni Mansur Guérios (1905–1943), whom he succeeded in the Academia Paranaense.

Works

• Pontos de Gramática Histórica Portuguesa , São Paulo 1937
• Pontos de Método da Fonética Histórica , Curitiba 1939
• Estudos sobre a língua caingangue. Notas histórico-comparativas. Dialeto de Palmas e dialeto de Tibagí, Paraná, in: Arquivos do Museu Paranaense 2,1942, pp. 97–178 (on the language Kaingang )
• Português Ginasial , São Paulo 1944
• Estudos sobre a língua Camacã, in: Arquivos do Museu Paranaense 4, 1945, pp. 291-320
• Português Colegial , São Paulo 1947
• Dicionário das tribos e línguas indígenas da América meridional , 2 vols., A-Cax, Curitiba 1948–1949
• Dicionário etimológico de nomes e sobrenomes , Curitiba 1949, São Paulo 1973, 1981
• Tabus lingüísticos , Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo 1956, 1979 (originally from 1942 continuously in magazines)
• A nomenclatura gramatical brasileira definida e exemplificada , São Paulo 1960
• Dicionário Cultural da Língua Portuguesa , 4 vols., Curitiba 1967 (preface by Bento Munhoz da Rocha Neto )
• Dicionário de etimologias da língua portuguesa , São Paulo 1979 (206 pages)

literature

• Revista Letras 28, 1979 (commemorative publication with list of publications)
• João Alves Pereira Penha, Filólogos brasileiros . Franca 2002, (1907–1987), pp. 109–114 ([Rosário Farâni] Mansur Guérios)

Web links

• Literature by and about Rosário Farâni Mansur Guérios in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
• http://www.academiapr.org.br/academicos/cadeira-39/ (Biographical note, Portuguese)