Background
MELO-BRAGA DE OLIVEIRA, Osvaldo was born on July 6, 1901 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
educator Librarian bacteriologist
MELO-BRAGA DE OLIVEIRA, Osvaldo was born on July 6, 1901 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Educated Colégio Pedro II, University do Brasil, Museu Histórico Nacional, Academy Brasileira de Letras.
Assistant, to its pubis, board, since 1935, technical member of committee compiling Dicionário Brasileiro da Lingua Portuguesa, 1940-1943. Teacher of Portuguese, geography, and hist, of civilization, Externato Lacé, 1928-1932, Externato Latino-Americano, 1938, Colégio Pery Valentim, 1938, adult courses in cultural department, of federal district, since 1938. Professor of Brazilian art, Museu Histórico Nacional, since 1947.
Director, secretary, editor-in-chief, Boletim do Sindicato da Leopoldina, 1940-1944.
Member of committee compiling Dicionário Brasileiro da Lingua Portuguesa, 1940-1943. Member: Associagáo Brasileira de Imprensa, Academy Fluminense de Letras, Institute Histórico e Geográfico de Sergipe, Society de Homens de Letras do Brasil, American Academy, of Political and Social Sciences, Society dos Amigos de Alberto Torres.