# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fernao-de-oliveira
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:37:29.086Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fernao-de-oliveira"
name: "Fernão de Oliveira"
slug: "fernao-de-oliveira"
description: "Fernão de Oliveira, sometimes named Fernando de Oliveira or Fernando 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. He was an early critic of slavery and the slave trade."
tagline: "Priest and grammarian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Grammatica_da_lingoagem_portuguesa_de_Fern%C3%A3o_Doliveira.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1507"
deathDate: "1581"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.61
  momentum:             0.6691449814126393
  historical:           4.610332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "فيرناو دى اوليفيرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern%C3%A3o_de_Oliveira"
    title: "Fernão de Oliveira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern%C3%A3o_de_Oliveira"
    title: "Fernão de Oliveira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern%C3%A3o_de_Oliveira"
    title: "Fernão de Oliveira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%B5"
    title: "Оливейра, Фернан де"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5445183"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump