William Brooks Greenlee (1872–1953) was an American scholar of Portuguese and Brazilian history. He is known for his biography of the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral.
Life
He was born on 25 April 1872 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He married Adeline Benham Fargo Greenlee and had three children with her. He died on March 1, 1953 in Illinois.
Education
He studied under professor Francis Millet Rogers at Harvard University.
Career
He took up writing as a career and wrote a number of historical books on Portuguese and Brazilian history.
He was a trustee of the Newberry Library. After his death, his entire collection of books was transferred to the Newberry Library. His collection of books contains more than 200 Portuguese manuscripts, dating from 1660 to 1815.
Bibliography
He is the author of a number of notable books:
The Voyage Of Pedro Álvares Cabral To Brazil And India Bartolomeu Dias The Captaincy of the Second Portuguese Voyage to Brazil Mechanical Experiments in Geology A Descriptive Bibliography of the History of Portugal The First Half Century of Brazilian History
References
External links https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198290786/william_brooks-greenlee https://www.jstor.org/stable/2508716 https://www.google.co.in/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22William+Brooks+Greenlee%22&source=gbs_metadata_r&cad=4 https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=ha001165797 https://app.amanote.com/v4.5.17/research/note-taking?resourceId=GKlMAnQBKQvf0BhiMz1S