Fernão de Oliveira

Male, Deceased Person

1507 –

99

Who is Fernão de Oliveira?

Fernão de Oliveira, sometimes named Fernando de Oliveira, was a Portuguese grammarian, Dominican friar, historian, cartographer, naval pilot and theorist on naval warfare and shipbuilding. An adventurous humanist and renaissance man, he studied and published the first grammar of the Portuguese language, the Grammatica da lingoagem portuguesa, in 1536.

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1507

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on July 23, 2013

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