Javier de Hoz
{{Short description|Spanish philologist (1940–2019)}}
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Universidad de Salamanca (1969–1989)
Colegio Trilingüe of Salamanca (1970–1984)
Universidad Complutense (1989–2010)}}
Jesús Javier de Hoz Bravo (29 July 1940 – 12 January 2019) was a Spanish philologist and Catedrático (University Professor).
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.
Biography
Born in Madrid on {{birth date|1940|07|29|df=y}}, Javier de Hoz earned a PhD in Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1966. He was Professor at 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 to 2010, Professor in the Universidad Complutense (Department of Greek Philology and Indo-European Studies).{{Cite web|title=Javier de Hoz|url=http://aelaw.unizar.es/people/javier-de-hoz|website=AELAW}}
De Hoz served as expert advisor for the UNESCO Central Co-ordinating Committee for the Study of Celtic Cultures (1984–1999),[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0006/000623/062311eb.pdf First report of the Central Co-ordinating Committee for the Study of Celtic Cultures] and was a member of the Council of Patronage of the Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos.{{Cite web |url=http://fundacionpastor.e.telefonica.net/conocenos.htm |title=Patronato |access-date=2009-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044124/http://fundacionpastor.e.telefonica.net/conocenos.htm |archive-date=2017-12-01 |url-status=dead }} He also served as the Director of the Project Hesperia for the development of a database for Palaeohispanic data.Orduña Aznar, Eduardo and Luján Martínez, Eugenio Ramón and Estarán Tolosa, M.ª José (2009) "[http://eprints.ucm.es/8672/ El banco de datos Hesperia]" In X Colóquio Internacional sobre Línguas e Culturas Paleo-Hispánicas (submitted).
Javier de Hoz died on 12 January 2019 at the age of 78.[https://www.lagacetadesalamanca.es/salamanca/2019/01/15/fallece-exdecano-facultad-filologia-javier/257994.html Fallece el exdecano de la Facultad de Filología, Javier de Hoz Bravo] {{in lang|es}}
Works
- {{Cite book|title=New approaches to Celtic place-names in Ptolemy's Geography|publisher=Ediciones Clásicas|year=2005|isbn=978-84-7882-572-1}} (co-edited with Eugenio R. Luján and Patrick Sims-Williams)
- {{Cite book|title=Historia lingüística de la Península Ibérica en la antigüedad|publisher=Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas|year=2010|isbn=978-84-00-09259-7}}
- {{Cite book|title=Historia lingüística de la Península Ibérica en la antigüedad. II : el mundo ibérico prerromano y la indoeuropeización|publisher=Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas|year=2011|isbn=978-84-00-09406-5}}
Further reading
- {{Cite journal|last=Almagro-Gorbea|first=Martín|date=2019|title=Javier de Hoz Bravo in memoriam|url=|journal=Complutum|volume=30|issue=1|pages=9–12|doi=10.5209/cmpl.64504|issn=1988-2327|doi-access=free}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.filol.ucm.es/depart/filgr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=253 Professor page at the Universidad Complutense] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090530071348/http://www.filol.ucm.es/depart/filgr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=253 |date=2009-05-30 }}
- [http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/extaut?codigo=29024 Página de Jesús Javier de Hoz Bravo en Dialnet] Publications by Jesús Javier de Hoz Bravo in the Dialnet list
- [http://hesperia.ucm.es/index.php Hesperia. Banco de Datos de Lenguas Paleohispánicas]
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Category:20th-century Spanish philologists
Category:Complutense University of Madrid alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Salamanca
Category:Linguists of Celtic languages
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