Ramiz Galvão
Benjamim Franklin de Ramiz Galvão (1846–1938) was a Brazilian doctor, scholar, administrator and public intellectual.
Early life and education
He was born in Rio Pardo, and grew up in Rio de Janeiro where he attended Colégio Amante da Instrução and Colégio Pedro II, the latter on a scholarship. He trained as a doctor and later taught at the Rio de Janeiro School of Medicine.
Career
A precocious talent, he published his first book aged just 19. He went on to teach and publish in a wide variety of fields. Among his works on Portuguese philology was the controversial Vocabulário etimológico, ortográfico e prosódico das palavras portuguesas derivadas da língua grega, published in 1909. As a translator, he translated the war memoir Le retraite de Laguna by the
He was tutor to the children of
Death and legacy
He died in Rio in 1938, aged 91.[3][4] A neighbourhood in his hometown of Rio Pardo is now named after him.
References
- ^ Princess Isabel of Brazil: Gender and Power in the Nineteenth Century, by Roderick J. Barman
- ^ Dom Pedro the Magnanimous, Second Emperor of Brazil by Mary Wilhelmine Williams
- ^ "Ramiz Galvão (Barão de Ramiz Galvão)". Academia Brasileira de Letras (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ planetaw (2020-07-16). "ANM - Academia Nacional de Medicina - Benjamim Franklin de Ramiz Galvão (Barão de Ramiz)". ANM - Academia Nacional de Medicina (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-05-27.