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Paulo Vanzolini

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Also known as Vanzolini, Paulo Emilio Vanzolini

Brazilian zoologist (1924-2013)

Person · Open Library

Works
2

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  • Lira
  • Tempos de cabo de Paulo Vanzolini

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Brazil
Active from
1923-04-25
Active to
2013-04-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,546
Total plays
37,249

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Paulo Vanzolini (São Paulo, April 25, 1923), with Adoniran Barbosa, is acknowledged as the biggest representative of the samba of São Paulo. A physician by education (1947) and a zoologist (acknowledged internationally as one of the most eminent) by profession, Vanzolini nevertheless also kept bohemian habits throughout his youth and maturity, always having been connected with music and malandragem (street smarts). Having started to write sambas in the 1940s <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Pa

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Paulo
Gender
male
Citizenship
Brazil
Place of birth
São Paulo
Place of death
São Paulo
Occupation
herpetologist
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
herpetology
Genre
samba
Image
Paulo Vanzolini.jpg
Number of children
5
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date of birth
1924-04-25
date of death
2013-04-28
Commons category
Paulo Vanzolini
author citation (zoology)
Vanzolini
place of burial
Consolação Cemetery
start of work period
1942-00-00
cause of death
pneumonia
manner of death
natural causes
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