Author: Fernão de Oliveira
Alternate names: Fernão de Oliveira; Fernão d'Oliveira; Fernando de Oliveira
Born: ca. 1507
Died: 1581
Bio: Fernão de Oliveira (1507 – c.1581), sometimes named Fernando de Oliveira, was a Portuguese grammarian, Dominican friar, historian, cartographer, naval pilot and theorist on naval warfare and shipbuilding. An adventurous humanist and renaissance man, he studied and published the first grammar of the Portuguese language, the Grammatica da lingoagem portuguesa, in 1536.