Emanuel Araújo or Emanuel Oliveira de Araújo was born on December 24, 1942, in Aracaju

Aracaju

-Vegetation:Aracaju lies in tropical forest. Rainforests are characterized by high rainfall, with minimum normal annual rainfall between 2,000 mm and 1,700 mm...

, Sergipe

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, Brazil

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 and died on July 15, 2000, in Brasília

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, Brazil

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Araújo became fluent in many modern language

Modern language

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s and also in some classic languages such as Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

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, Latin

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, Hebrew and Old Egyptian

Old Egyptian

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. This greatly influenced his work as a history

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 professor at the Universidade Federal da Bahia

Universidade Federal da Bahia

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 and also at the Universidade de Brasília where he obtained his doctorate degree.

One of Araújo's main works is the book A construção do livro - Princípios da técnica de editoração (Rio de Janeiro, Editora Nova Fronteira, 1986). This publication was prefaced by Antônio Houaiss

Antônio Houaiss

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, a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, the head editor of the Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa

Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa

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, one of the major reference dictionaries for the Portuguese language

Portuguese language

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