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Varnhagen, Francisco Adolfo de, Visconde de Porto Seguro, 1816-1878

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Personal name headingVarnhagen, Francisco Adolfo de, Visconde de Porto Seguro, 1816-1878
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Variant(s)F. A. de V. (Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen), Visconde de Porto Seguro, 1816-1878
Porto Seguro, Barão de, 1816-1878
Porto Seguro, Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, Visconde de, 1816-1878
V., F. A. de (Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen), Visconde de Porto Seguro, 1816-1878
Varnhagen, F. A. de (Francisco Adolfo), Visconde de Porto Seguro, 1816-1878
Varnhagen, Francisco Adolpho de, visconde de Porto Seguro, 1816-1878
Varnhagen, Visconde de Porto Seguro, 1816-1878
Volafan, Genaro H. de, 1816-1878
De Volafan, Genaro H., 1816-1878
Seudónimo de Valencia, 1816-1878
Valencia, Seudónimo de, 1816-1878
LocatedLisbon (Portugal) Madrid (Spain)
Birth date1816-02-17
Death date1878
Place of birthSorocaba (Brazil)
Place of deathVienna (Austria)
Field of activityDiplomats Historians
Found inPereira, N.M. Compêndio narrativo do peregrino da América, 1988: v.1, t.p. (Varnhagen) p. 2 (F.A. Varnhagen) v. 2, p. 6 (Barão de Porto Seguro)
O tabaco da Bahia ..., 1863: t.p. (F.A. de V., Ministro do Brazil em Venezuela, Equador, &.)
Historia das lutas com os hollandezes no Brazil ..., 1872: t.p. (Barão de Porto Seguro)
Vasconcellos, R.S. de V. Archivo nobiliarchico brasileiro, 1918 p. 372 (hdg.: Porto Seguro (1o. Barão e 1o. Visconde com grandeza de), Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen; Barão by decree of July 24, 1872 & Visconde com grandeza by decree of May 18, 1874)
Schwartz, Stuart B. "Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen: diplomat, patriot, historian," in Hispanic American historical review, v. 47 (1967), pages 185-202, via JSTOR, April 8, 2019: page 186-187 (Varnhagen was born on February 17, 1816 in Sorocaba (Sao Paulo state); taken by family to Portugal at age seven, attended Real Colégio da Luz [Lisbon]; became Brazilian citizen in 1841, served as diplomat in Portugal, Spain and elsewhere) page 189 ("In 1868 Varnhagen departed for Vienna, where he was to spend the last years of his life as a Brazilian diplomatic representative ... In 1872 Dom Pedro II named Varnhagen Barão do Pôrto Seguro, and in 1874 he was raised to the rank of Visconde do Pôrto Seguro ... He died in 1878 at the age of sixty-two")
Columbus, Christopher. Primera epístola del almirante don Cristóbal Colón dando cuenta de su gran descubrimiento á d. Gabriel Sánchez, tesorero de Aragón, 1858, via Internet Archive, April 8, 2019: title page (... el editor D. Genaro H. de Volafan)
Columbus, Christopher. Carta de Cristóbal Colón, enviada de Lisboa á Barcelona en marzo de 1493, 1869, via HathiTrust, April 8, 2019: title page ("conteniendo las variantes de los diferentes textos, juicio sobre estos, reflexiones tendentes a mostrar a quien la carta fue escrita, y varias otras noticias, por el Seudónimo de Valencia")
Willingham, Elizabeth M. The mythical Indies and Columbus's apocalyptic letter, 2016: page 295 (in description of Columbus, Christopher. Primera epístola del almirante don Cristóbal Colón ... 1858: "Ed. Genaro H. de Volafan ... 'Volafan' is a pseudonym of Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen"; in description of Carta de Cristóbal Colón ... 1869: "Ed. El Seudónimo de Valencia. Vienna [Varnhagen, privately printed ... ], 1869")
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