Fernão Lopes de Castanheda
(1500-1559)
Portuguese historian
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Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (Santarém, c. 1500 – 1559 in Coimbra) was a Portuguese historian in the early Renaissance. His "History of the discovery and conquest of India", full of geographic and ethnographic objective information, was widely translated throughout Europe.
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1 January 1500 Santarém, Portugal
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| Died |
6 June 1559 (aged 59) Coimbra, Portugal
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| Zodiac | Capricorn |
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