Soares (Urbano Canuto)
Biographical note on Urbano Canuto Soares, Funchal-born philologist (b. 1894) and professor at the Faculty of Letters of Porto, author of studies on Madeiran popular language and traditions.
He was born in Funchal on 19 January 1894 and is a bachelor (bacharel, university graduate) of letters of the University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa). He currently holds the post of full professor of the first group of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Porto. Works: O Calão escolar da Casa Pia, in collaboration with Dr Aurelio da Costa Ferreira (Aguia, 1914, and Anais da Casa Pia, 1915); Linguagem e tradições populares do arquipélago da Madeira (Revista Lusitana, 1915); Epifanio Dias (a speech delivered at the graveside of this professor, Revista Lusitana, 1917); and Ensaios Filologicos, um manuscrito português do século XVI e o problema guanche (Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto, 1920). He has several other works in preparation, among them a translation of Aristophanes’ Clouds, preceded by a study of Socrates.
On 19 April 1921, when the Faculty of Sciences of Porto conferred the degree of doctor on Marshal José Joffre, Generalissimo Armando Dias and General Horácio Smith Durrien, Dr Urbano Soares delivered an oration in Latin that was greatly admired by those versed in that language, and he drew up the doctoral diplomas of those military men (1921).
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- Funchal
Birthplace of the subject.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Porto
Portugal. City of the university where he taught.
A Portuguese city, where the 1820 liberal revolution began and whose district is the only one denser than Funchal's. Several Madeirans studied at its medical school or Academia Politécnica, and some lived or died there. The editor of O Funchalense Liberal was hanged there, and Marítimo beat FC Porto there in 1922.
People
People mentioned · 06- Urbano Canuto Soaresb. 1894
Funchal-born philologist and professor at the University of Porto, subject of this entry.
- António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira1879–1922
Co-author with Soares of a study of Casa Pia school slang.
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Generalissimo (Armando Diaz) honoured at Porto in 1921.
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Professor at whose graveside Soares delivered a published speech (1917).
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British general (Smith-Dorrien) honoured at Porto in 1921.
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French marshal awarded an honorary doctorate at Porto in 1921, for which Soares gave a Latin oration.