Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Nina, João Estevam Miguel da Silva

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Nina, João Estevam Miguel da Silva

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Edition of 1900. No confirmation of this person's existence outside of Appletons' and derived sources has as yet been located, but there is also no verifiable source which states the person is one of Appletons' fictitious entries. Use this information with extra caution. Suspicious due to spelling errors in the titles of the alleged literary works. There is also a mention of his membership in the Historical Institute of Rio De Janiero, but the Institute was not founded until 1838, i.e. 25 years after the subject's date of death.

1235827Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography — Nina, João Estevam Miguel da Silva

NINA, João Estevam Miguel da Silva (ne-nah), Brazilian author, b. in Pernambuco about 1770; d. there in 1813. He received his early education in Brazil, but finished his studies in the University of Coimbra, was graduated in law, and practised his profession successfully in Pernambuco. His leisure time was devoted to historical researches, and he was elected an associate member of the Historical institute of Rio Janeiro. He published “Memorias de algumas particularedades acerca dos estabelecimentos portuguezes eus Brazil” (2 vols., Pernambuco, 1806); “Descripcão circumstanciada do provincia de São Paulo” (2 vols., 1810); and “Colleção das Vidas dos Portuguezes Celebres,” a cyclopædia of the Portuguese adventurers that participated either in the conquest or in the colonization of Brazil (6 vols., 1809-'12).