Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado

Msgr Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (8 May 1855 – 4 April 1922) (Romanised Konkani: ''Sebastav Rodolf Dalgad'') was a Catholic priest, academic, university professor, theologian, orientalist, and linguist from Portuguese Goa.

Dalgado distinguished himself as a linguist and etymologist in the study of the influences of ''língua Portuguesa'' on a number of languages of southeast Asia. He was a corresponding member of the ''Academia das Ciências de Lisboa'', elected on 27 July 1911. He also became widely renowned during his lifetime as a Konkani language scholar. Provided by Wikipedia