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 Faculty of Medicine of Bahia. 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. The quarrel between Ribeiro and Barbosa generated a great deal of controversy at the time.