Javier de Hoz
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Jesús Javier de Hoz Bravo is philologist and Catedrático (University Professor). Born in Madrid
on 29 July 1940. Doctor of Philology by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1966. Has been Professor in the Universidad de Sevilla (1967–1969), the Universidad de Salamanca (1969–1989), Dean of the Faculty of Philology of the Universidad de Salamanca (1981–1985), Director of the Colegio Trilingüe of Salamanca (l970-l984), and since 1989 Professor in the Universidad Complutense (Department of Greek Philology
and Indo-European Studies
).
He has been expert advisor for the UNESCO Central Co-ordinating Committee for the Study of Celtic Cultures (1984–1999) is member of the Council of Patronage of the Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos.
Director of the Project Hesperia for the development of a database for Palaeohispanic data
His main areas of research are: Paleohispanic languages
, historical linguistics
, ancient Celtic languages
, history of writing
, preclassical greek literature
, Greek epigraphy
, and ancient Greek theatre
.
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
on 29 July 1940. Doctor of Philology by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1966. Has been Professor in the Universidad de Sevilla (1967–1969), the Universidad de Salamanca (1969–1989), Dean of the Faculty of Philology of the Universidad de Salamanca (1981–1985), Director of the Colegio Trilingüe of Salamanca (l970-l984), and since 1989 Professor in the Universidad Complutense (Department of Greek Philology
Classical philology
Classical philology is the study of ancient Greek and classical Latin. Classical philology has been defined as "the careful study of the literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds." Greek and Latin literature and civilization have traditionally been considered...
and Indo-European Studies
Indo-European studies
Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. Its goal is to amass information about the hypothetical proto-language from which all of these languages are descended, a language dubbed Proto-Indo-European , and its speakers, the...
).
He has been expert advisor for the UNESCO Central Co-ordinating Committee for the Study of Celtic Cultures (1984–1999) is member of the Council of Patronage of the Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos.
Director of the Project Hesperia for the development of a database for Palaeohispanic data
His main areas of research are: Paleohispanic languages
Paleohispanic languages
The Paleohispanic languages were the languages of the pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, excluding languages of foreign colonies, such as Greek in Emporion and Phoenician in Qart Hadast...
, historical linguistics
Historical linguistics
Historical linguistics is the study of language change. It has five main concerns:* to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages...
, ancient Celtic languages
Celtic languages
The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family...
, history of writing
History of writing
The history of writing records the development of expressing language by letters or other marks. In the history of how systems of representation of language through graphic means have evolved in different human civilizations, more complete writing systems were preceded by proto-writing, systems of...
, preclassical greek literature
Greek literature
Greek literature refers to writings composed in areas of Greek influence, typically though not necessarily in one of the Greek dialects, throughout the whole period in which the Greek-speaking people have existed.-Ancient Greek literature :...
, Greek epigraphy
Epigraphy
Epigraphy Epigraphy Epigraphy (from the , literally "on-writing", is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing; that is, the science of identifying the graphemes and of classifying their use as to cultural context and date, elucidating their meaning and assessing what conclusions can be...
, and ancient Greek theatre
Theatre of Ancient Greece
The theatre of Ancient Greece, or ancient Greek drama, is a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece between c. 550 and c. 220 BC. The city-state of Athens, which became a significant cultural, political and military power during this period, was its centre, where it was...
.
Books
- De Hoz Bravo, Javier, 2010, Historia lingüística de la Península Ibérica en la antigüedad: I. Preliminares y mundo meridional prerromano. Col. "Manuales y anejos de Emerita" 50 Madrid: CSIC. ISBN 978-84-00-09260-3.
External links
- Professor page at the Universidad Complutense
- Página de Jesús Javier de Hoz Bravo en Dialnet Publications by Jesús Javier de Hoz Bravo in the Dialnet list
- Hesperia. Banco de Datos de Lenguas Paleohispánicas