Neo-Latin toponyms in Flora Brasiliensis: report of the Austro-German Mission in Brazil in 1818

Abstract

The present article consists of a study in the field of History of Linguistics in Brazil, that has as corpus of work the register of toponyms in scientific Neo-Latin in Flora Brasiliensis, a book which recorded the path of the Austro-German Mission in the year 1818 in Brazil, the expedition of the German naturalists Carl F. P. von Martius and Johann S. B. von Spix. In addition to the establishment of text and translation of the scientific Latin account, written by Ignaz Urban and published in 1906, the article presented the contextualization of the scientific works of these naturalists, the use of scientific Latin in the nineteenth century and the context of toponymic studies in the History of Linguistics, currently in Brazil. The route traveled in Brazil by Spix and Martius in 1818, recorded in the work, between the present states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Goiás and Bahia, is part of the old roads of the Estrada Real.

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DOI: http:/dx.doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2017.26753