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 , 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).
De Hoz served as expert advisor for the UNESCO Central Co-ordinating Committee for the Study of Celtic Cultures (1984–1999),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. 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) "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.Fallece el exdecano de la Facultad de Filología, Javier de Hoz Bravo
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External links 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