Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados (born March 29, 1922 in Salamanca ; † July 21, 2020 in Madrid ) was a Spanish philologist , Graecist and member of the Real Academia Española .
Life
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados studied Classical Philology at the University of Salamanca and received his doctorate in 1946 from the Complutense University of Madrid .
In 1949 Rodríguez took over the chair of Greek at the Institut Cardenal Cisneros in Madrid. In 1951 he was appointed professor at the University of Barcelona . In 1952 he moved to the Complutense University of Madrid. From 1972 to 1976 he was head of the Greek language department at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) . In 1988 he retired.
Rodríguez was Honorary President of the Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos (SEEC) and the Sociedad Española de Lingüística .
In addition to his work as an editor at the magazines Emerita and Revista Española de Lingüística and at the CSIC 's collection of classical Greek and Latin works Alma Mater , Rodríguez also worked for national newspapers such as ABC and El Mundo .
Act
Rodríguez was interested in humanism . As a Hellenist , he dealt primarily with Greek and Latin literature . He was considered an expert in Indo-European linguistics and was a member of the CSIC . There he led the largest lexicographical project after the LSJ , the creation of a Greek-Spanish dictionary, the Diccionario Griego-Español , including the Diccionario Micénico .
As a philologist, he defended the hypothesis of the Vasconización tardía ( Eng . About late Basque ), which assumes that the first speakers of the Euskera only reached the Iberian Peninsula in the 5th or 6th century .
In 1990 Rodríguez joined the Real Academia Española and, as académico de número, took over the area of responsibility d . In 2003 he was also elected to the Real Academia de la Historia . He was also a member of the Academy of Athens and the Academia Argentina de Letras .
Web links
- Bibliography of publications since 1943.
- Selected works in the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes .
Individual evidence
- ^ Muere el académico de la RAE Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
- ↑ Académicos Numerarios , accessed November 22, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rodríguez Adrados, Francisco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salamanca |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 2020 |
| Place of death | Madrid |