Javier de Hoz

Jesús Javier de Hoz Bravo (29 July 1940 – 12 January 2019), was a Spanish philologist and Catedrático (University Professor). Born in Madrid on (1940-07-29)29 July 1940. Doctor of Philology by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1966. Was 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[1] (1970-1984), and from 1989 Professor in the Universidad Complutense (Department of Greek Philology and Indo-European Studies).

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is de Hoz and the second or maternal family name is Bravo.

He had been expert advisor for the UNESCO Central Co-ordinating Committee for the Study of Celtic Cultures (1984–1999) [2] and was a member of the Council of Patronage of the Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos.[3]

Director of the Project Hesperia for the development of a database for Palaeohispanic data.[4]

His main areas of research were: Paleohispanic languages, historical linguistics, ancient Celtic languages, history of writing, preclassical Greek literature, Greek epigraphy, and ancient Greek theatre.

Javier de Hoz died on 12 January 2019 at the age of 78.[5]

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.

References
  1. Colegio Triligüe article in the Wikisalamanca
  2. First report of the Central Co-ordinating Committee for the Study of Celtic Cultures
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2009-06-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Orduña Aznar, Eduardo and Luján Martínez, Eugenio Ramón and Estarán Tolosa, M.ª José (2009) "El banco de datos Hesperia" In X Colóquio Internacional sobre Línguas e Culturas Paleo-Hispánicas (submitted).
  5. Fallece el exdecano de la Facultad de Filología, Javier de Hoz Bravo (in Spanish)
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