Person historian librarian writer
Jordão Apolinário de Freitas
b. 1866
historian · librarian · writer
Funchal-born historical researcher, trained in theology and medicine, and director of the Ajuda public library in Lisbon. His many publications include 'Quando foi descoberta a Madeira?' (1911) and a 1937 pamphlet on Madeira's water-powered sawmills.
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- Discovery of the archipelago — Madeiran researcher who wrote Quando foi descoberta a Madeira?, citing a Spanish friar's earlier voyage.
- Discovery of the archipelago — Author of 'Quando foi descoberta a Madeira' (1911).
- Industries — Author of a 1937 pamphlet on Madeira's water-powered sawmills.
- Madeiran history — Author of Quando foi descoberta a Madeira? (1911).
- Landi (Count Giulio de) — Director of the Ajuda Library who studied Constantino's book in 1911 and established that it plagiarised Landi's work.
- Materials for Madeiran History — Madeiran researcher who examined Noronha's manuscript in Lisbon.
- Water-powered sawmills — Madeiran author of the pamphlet 'Serras de Agua' on the legislation governing water sawmills.
- Silva (family) — Member of the household of the Infante D. Diogo and grandfather of Jordão de Freitas da Silva.
- Freitas — Son of João de Freitas who distinguished himself in India and became captain of the Moluccas.
- Illustrious men — Santa Cruz native, captain of the Moluccas and lord of Amboína, confirmed by João III in 1543.
- Santa Cruz (parish) — Native of Santa Cruz, captain of the Moluccas, granted Amboina by the king of Ternate in 1537.
- Journalism — Madeiran scholar who published an alphabetical list of Madeiran newspapers on a single sheet, the basis of this entry's list.
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