Jesús Javier de Hoz Bravo (29 July 1940 – 12 January 2019) was a Spanish

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

and

Catedrático Academic ranks in Spain are the titles, relative importance and authority of professors, researchers, and administrative personnel held in academia. Overview According to the Spanish Organic University Law, the following are the academic ranks i ...

(University Professor). His main areas of research were

Paleohispanic languages The Paleo-Hispanic or Paleo-Iberian languages are 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. After the Roman conquest of H ...

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical li ...

, ancient

Celtic languages The Celtic languages ( ) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from the hypothetical Proto-Celtic language. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, following Paul-Yve ...

history of writing The history of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures various social and psychological consequences associated with literacy a ...

, preclassical

Greek literature Greek literature () dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today. Ancient Greek literature was written in an Ancient Greek dialect, literature ranges from the oldest surviving wri ...

, Greek

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

, and

ancient Greek theatre A theatrical culture flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC. At its centre was the city-state of Athens, which became a significant cultural, political, and religious place during this period, and the theatre was institutionalised there as p ...

Biography

Born in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

on , Javier de Hoz earned a PhD in Philology from the

Universidad Complutense The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

de Madrid in 1966. He was Professor at the Universidad de Sevilla (1967–1969), the

Universidad de Salamanca The University of Salamanca () is a public research university in Salamanca, Spain. Founded in 1218 by King Alfonso IX, it is the oldest university in the Hispanic world and the fourth oldest in the world in continuous operation. It ha ...

(1969–1989), Dean of the Faculty of Philology of the Universidad de Salamanca (1981–1985), Director of the Colegio Trilingüe of Salamanca (1970–1984) and, from 1989 to 2010, Professor in the

(Department of Greek Philology and

Indo-European Studies Indo-European studies () is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical p ...

). De Hoz served as expert advisor for the

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ) is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and International secur ...

Central Co-ordinating Committee for the Study of Celtic Cultures (1984–1999), and was a member of the Council of Patronage of the Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos. He also served as the Director of the Project Hesperia for the development of a database for Palaeohispanic data. Javier de Hoz died on 12 January 2019 at the age of 78.Fallece el exdecano de la Facultad de Filología, Javier de Hoz Bravo

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* (co-edited with Eugenio R. Luján and Patrick Sims-Williams) * *

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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
1940 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Spanish philologists Spanish philologists Hellenic epigraphers Celtic epigraphers Complutense University of Madrid alumni Academic staff of the University of Salamanca Linguists of Celtic languages {{Spain-linguist-stub

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