Tomé Barbosa de Figueiredo Almeida Cardoso

Tomé Barbosa de Figueiredo Almeida Cardoso, was an official in the Secretaria de Estado dos Negócios Estrangeiros, and a famous polyglot and etimologist from Portugal; he could speak Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, German, Turkish, Arabic, and Russian.[1]

He died in Lisbon in 1820 or 1822.[2]

Known works
  • Périplo, ou circumnavegação de Hannon, trasladada do grego, e annotada, em Jornal de Coimbra, Volume V (1818), pp. 65 e seguintes;
  • Resumo histórico dos principais portugueses, que no século XVI compuseram em latim, em Jornal de Coimbra, Volume VI (1818), pp. 84–104;
gollark: Good news: I have the optimal solution.
gollark: What? <@!509849474647064576> wrote #2 using Codex.
gollark: Worrying.
gollark: Maybe I need to do induction over *ordinals* to beat the induction over *integers*.
gollark: None are safe, I'm pretty certain.

References
  1. Armando Cortesão (1969). History of Portuguese cartography. Junta de Investigações do Ultramar. p. 35. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  2. Innocencio Francisco da Silva; Brito Aranha; Jose Joaquim Gomez de Brito; Alvaro Neves; Ernesto Soares (1862). Diccionario bibliographico portuguez (in Portuguese). Na Imprensa Nacional. pp. 358–. Retrieved 31 July 2013. Oflicial da Secretaria d'Estado dos Negócios Estrangeiros, etc. ... e nascimento, bem como a data prerisa do óbito, que se não me engano occorreu entre os annos de 1820 c 1822.



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