Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro
Ernesto Carneiro Ribeiro ( 12 September 1839 — 13 November 1920) was a Brazilian physician, teacher, linguist and educator. His main work is Serões gramaticais, a grammarbook of the Portuguese language. Biography Carneiro Ribeiro was born in 1839 in the Itaparica Island, at the state of Bahia, where he had basic education. He moved to the state capital Salvador, where he attended, humanities preparatory classes for the Bahia School of Medicine. He graduated in 1864, and received the title of Baron of Vila Nova, on his biomedical researches. In 1874 Ribeiro founded the Colégio da Bahia, with funding of the Brazilian Empire; the school ran until 1883. In the following year he founded a school bearing his name. When Brazil became a republic, in 1899, Carneiro Ribeiro joined the commission formed by governor Manuel Vitorino to elaborate a new educational plan. Civil Code revision controversy In 1902 Carneiro Ribeiro had the task, under the Minister of Justice J. J. Seabra, of reviewing the project of the new Civil Code presented by Clóvis Beviláqua. The legislation would substitute the older, Colonial-era Ordenações filipinas (Philippine Ordinations). For political reasons – Seabra was his political adversary in Bahia — jurist Rui Barbosa, who