José de Anchieta

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José de Anchieta was a 16th-century Spanish Jesuit missionary, writer, and co-founder of several Brazilian settlements who played a key role in the early colonization and evangelization of Brazil.


Statements (58)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Catholic priest
Jesuit missionary
Roman Catholic saint
human
poet
writer
activeIn Brazil
São Vicente
surface form: "São Vicente Captaincy"
beatifiedBy Pope John Paul II
birthName José de Anchieta
surface form: "José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo"
burialPlace Anchieta, Espírito Santo
canonizationStatus canonized saint
canonizedBy Pope Francis
coFounderOf Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo
São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga Jesuit college
countryOfBirth Crown of Castile
countryOfDeath Portuguese America
surface form: "Colonial Brazil"
dateOfBeatification 1980-06-22
dateOfBirth 1534-03-19
dateOfCanonization 2014-04-03
dateOfDeath 1597-06-09
educatedAt University of Coimbra
era 16th century
ethnicOrigin Spanish
fieldOfWork evangelization of Indigenous peoples in Brazil
linguistics
theology
honorificTitle Apostle of Brazil
influenced Catholic missions in South America
knownFor co-founding Rio de Janeiro
co-founding São Paulo
early Jesuit missions in colonial Brazil
grammatical description of the Tupi language
plays and religious dramas in Tupi and Portuguese
languageWritten Latin
Portuguese
Tupi–Guaraní
surface form: "Tupi"
memberOf Society of Jesus
name José de Anchieta
nationality Spanish
occupation missionary
poet
priest
writer
participatedIn early colonization of Brazil
patronage Brazil
Canary Islands
state of São Paulo
surface form: "São Paulo (state)"
placeOfBirth San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Tenerife
placeOfDeath State of Espírito Santo
surface form: "Espírito Santo"

Reritiba
religion Roman Catholicism
religiousOrder Society of Jesus
surface form: "Jesuits"
wrote Portuguese language
surface form: "Arte de gramática da língua mais usada na costa do Brasil"

poems in Latin
religious plays in Tupi

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

José de Anchieta birthName José de Anchieta
this entity surface form: "José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo"
São Paulo foundedBy José de Anchieta
Manuel da Nóbrega mentorOf José de Anchieta
José de Anchieta name José de Anchieta

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