Javier de Hoz

Who is Javier de Hoz?

Jesús Javier de Hoz Bravo is philologist and Catedrático. 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, the Universidad de Salamanca, Dean of the Faculty of Philology of the Universidad de Salamanca, Director of the Colegio Trilingüe of Salamanca, and since 1989 Professor in the Universidad Complutense.

He has been expert advisor for the UNESCO Central Co-ordinating Committee for the Study of Celtic Cultures 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.