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Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
About 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 (1970-1984), and from 1989 Professor in the Universidad Complutense (Department of Greek Philology and Indo-European Studies). He had been expert advisor for the UNESCO 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.Director of the Project Hesperia for the development of a database for Palaeohispanic data 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.
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