[Joaquim Antonio Fonseca]. Portuguese scholar and author, born at Oporto, Portugal, on the 10th of February 1849. He was educated at Hamburg, and later at Coimbra; after which he traveled for four years (1871–75) in Spain, Portugal, Germany, France and England. In 1883 he became professor of German in the college of Oporto, and in 1889 director of the Museum of Trade and Industry. He published Os Musicos Portugueses: Biographia-bibliographia (1870); Ensaio Sobre o Catalogo da Libraria de Musica de el-rei D. João IV (1873); Reforma do ensino de Bellas Artes (1877–79); Francisco de Hollanda (1879); Goësiana (1879–81); O Faust de Goethe e a tradução de Castilho (1872); and O Consummado Germanista (1879). All his labors have been in the endeavor to raise the Portuguese scholarship to the level of the best ideals.
His wife, Karolina Wilhelma, the daughter of Gustav Michaelson, was born in Berlin on the 15th of March 1851. She received her education at the Luisenschule, in Berlin, and has written Romancero del Cid (1870); Studien zur Romanischen Wortschöpfung (1876); Versuch über den Palmeiran da Inglaterra (1883); Studien zur Hispanischen Wortdeutung (1886); besides contributions to various journals. She died in 1925.
