Background
SOUSA DA SILVEIRA, Alvaro Ferdinando was born on May 11, 1883 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
SOUSA DA SILVEIRA, Alvaro Ferdinando was born on May 11, 1883 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Educated Deutsche Schule, Ginásio Nacional, Escola Politécnica do Rio de Janeiro (civil and geographical engineer).
Professor; assistant, Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil. Lecturer, Escola Normal. Teacher of Portuguese and Latin in tech, secondary schools Paulo de Frontín and Rivadávia Correia.
Professor, of Portuguese philology and of linguistics, University do Distrito Federal, and head professor., sect, of classical and modern literature, school of letters. At present, professor, of Portuguese, school of letters, University do Brasil.
Member commission named by ministry of edn. in 1934 to study the spelling problem. Member commission to organize secondary edn. programs, 1942. Member: Society de Estudos Latinos, Society Brasileira da Antropologia e Etnología, Academy Brasileira de Filología (pres, since its foundation in 1944.).