Sotero dos Reis

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Sotero dos Reis

Francisco Sotero dos Reis (born April 22, 1800 in São Luís , Maranhão province ; † January 16, 1871 ibid) was a Brazilian journalist , poet , writer , translator , literary historian and philologist .

Life

Sotero dos Reis was born as the son of Balthasar José dos Reis and Maria Thereza Cordeiro in the Maranhão Province in northeastern Brazil. He was the cousin of the mother of the later writer Maria Firmina dos Reis, born in 1825 . He had a short period of schooling, was self-taught , acquired knowledge of Greek , Italian and French, and trained in law and economics . In 1826 he married Anacleta Candida Compasso.

Sotero dos Reis began his career as a journalist and editor. He developed into an influential literary opinion maker in Maranhão in the 19th century.

He was a contributor and editor. a. im O maranhense , O Constitucional from 1830, O investigador maranhense 1836, A Revista from 1840, Publicador Maranhense 1841, Correio de Anúncios 1851, O Constitucional from 1851, O Eclesiástico with the pseudonym Nicodemus, O Observador from 1854.

Until his retirement he was a professor for literature and Latin at the Liceu Maranhense and at the Instituto de Humanidades in São Luís, founded by Pedro Nunes Leal in 1861 . There he taught languages ​​and was a librarian. In Maranhão he held various offices, in São Luís he was city councilor and school inspector, then from 1832 a member of the provincial assembly and finally from 1862 to 1864. From 1864 to 1870 he directed the Santa Thereza home for the education of underprivileged girls. His writings therefore always have a pedagogical note, e.g. Some of them were used in schools long after his death.

As a philologist, he published a work on general grammar in which he examined the ancient classics in relation to the Portuguese language (1862), which was followed by the translation of De bello Gallico by Gaius Iulius Caesar (1863) as a practical implementation . This was followed by the Grammatica Portugueza (1866), which was the first grammar to appear in Brazil and for which he was famous. As the Romanist Wolfgang Roth writes today, he is still adhered to a strict Luso-Portuguese norm .

His best-known work is the Magnum opus Curso de litteratura portugueza e brasileira , which was built up in lessons , appeared in four volumes from 1866 to 1868 and in a fifth volume made possible posthumously and with funding from the Provincial Parliament in 1873.

As early as 1873, Antônio Henriques Leal published an extensive monographic biography on Sotero dos Reis in his Pantheon Maranhense .

Honors

He wore the habitat of the Portuguese Order of Christ and was a knight of the Brazilian Order of the Rose .

Sotero dos Reis became the namesake for chair 19 of the corresponding members of the Academia Brasileira de Letras in Rio de Janeiro, chair 4 of the Academia Brasileira de Filologia and chair 17 of the Academia Maranhense de Letras in São Luís.

In São Luíz the Avenida Sotero dos Reis is named after him, in Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre and Ponta Grossa one Rua Sotero dos Reis is named after him.

Fonts

  • Biographia dos Brazileiros illustres pelas sciencias, lettras, armas e virtudes: Eduardo Olympio Machado. In: Revista do Instituto Historico e Geographico do Brazil. Volume 19, 1856, pp. 607-644, online (PDF, 50.3 MB). Reprint: Biographia do Dr. Eduardo Olympio Machado, presidente da provincia do Maranhão. Maranhão 1855.
  • Postillas de grammatica geral applicada á lingua portugueza pela analyze dos classicos. Type. de B. de Mattos, São Luis 1862. Extended new edition in 1868, a third in 1870. (The current spelling of the title: Apostilas de gramática geral aplicada à língua portuguesa pela análise dos clássicos ).
  • Grammatica Portugueza accomodada aos principios geraes da palavra, seguidos da immediata applicaco pratica. Type. de B. de Mattos, São Luís 1866. (Current spelling of the title: Gramática portuguesa ).
  • Commentarios de Caio Julio Cezar. Traduzidos em portuguez. Type. de B. de Mattos, São Luís 1863/69. Appeared in six deliveries.
  • Curso de litteratura portugueza e brasileira. 5 volumes. [Type. de B. de Mattos], Maranhão 1866–1868, 1873.
    • Volume 1 in Literatura Digital (PDF; 7.88 MB)
    • Volume 2 in Literatura Digital (PDF; 16.43 MB)
    • Volume 3 in Literatura Digital (PDF; 35.17 MB)
    • Volume 4 in Literatura Digital (PDF; 34.95 MB)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Sotero dos Reis  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ricardo André Ferreira Martins: Breve panorama histórico da imprensa literária no maranhão oitocentista. In: Animus. Revista Interamericana de Comunicação Midiática. Volume 9, 2010, No. 18, pp. 107–127, here p. 110: “… a atividade de Francisco Sotero dos Reis como jornalista foi uma das mais importantes para a consolidação da opinião pública e difusão da atividade letrada e do gosto pela leitura na província do Maranhão durante o século 19. “Accessed September 20, 2014 (Portuguese).
  2. ^ Sacramento Blake: Diccionario Bibliographico Brazileiro. Volume 3, Rio de Janeiro 1895, p. 126. Retrieved September 18, 2014 (Portuguese).
  3. ^ Antônio Henriques Leal: Pantheon Maranhense. Volume 1. Lisboa 1873, p. 135.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Roth: Portuguese or Brazilian? On the language of Brazil as a linguistic and literary problem. In: Iberoamericana. Volume 3, 1979, pp. 16–41. ( JSTOR 41670677 ).
  5. ↑ socios Correspondentes e Patronos , ABL. Retrieved September 17, 2014 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Patron Sotero dos Reis , AML. Retrieved September 17, 2014 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Rice, sotero dos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rice, Francisco Sotero dos (full name); Nicodemus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian teacher, journalist, poet, writer and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH São Luís
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1871
Place of death São Luís