Francisco Rodríguez Adrados

Francisco Rodríguez Adrados (29 March 1922 – 21 July 2020) was a Spanish Hellenist, linguist and translator. He worked most of his career at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was a member of the Real Academia Española and Real Academia de la Historia.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez and the second or maternal family name is Adrados.

Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Born(1922-03-29)29 March 1922
Salamanca, Spain
Died21 July 2020(2020-07-21) (aged 98)
Madrid, Spain
EducationUniversity of Salamanca
Complutense University of Madrid
Occupation(s)Linguist, translator, historian
Years active1949–2020
Known forHellenist studies and translations
AwardsPremio Nacional de las Letras Españolas (2012)
Seat d of the Real Academia Española
In office
28 April 1991 – 21 July 2020
Preceded byDámaso Alonso
Succeeded byDolores Corbella Díaz

Life

Rodríguez Adrados was born on 29 March 1922 in Salamanca.[1] He studied classical philology at the University of Salamanca, where he obtained a degree in 1944. He later obtained a doctorate in classical philology from the Complutense University of Madrid. Rodríguez Adrados became a teacher of Greek at the Instituto Cardenal Cisneros in Madrid in 1949. Two years later, he became a professor at the University of Barcelona and the next year, he moved to the Complutense University of Madrid, where he worked until his retirement.[2] He worked as a translator of Ancient Greek and Sanskrit texts.[1] He was considered to be an expert on Ancient Greek.[3][4]

Rodríguez Adrados died on 21 July 2020 in Madrid, aged 98.[5]

Awards and honors

For his work on the Diccionario Griego-Español, Rodríguez Adrados received the Prize of the Aristotle Onassis Foundation in 1989.[6]

He was elected to Seat d of the Real Academia Española on 21 June 1990, he took up his seat on 28 April 1991.[1] Four years later he became a corresponding member of the Academia Argentina de Letras.[2][7] He was elected a foreign member of the Academy of Athens in 2003.[8]

Rodríguez Adrados was elected to medalla nº 3 of the Real Academia de la Historia on 23 May 2003 and took up his seat on 22 February 2004.[2] In 2012, he won the Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas.[6] In 2014, he was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Panama.[1]

References
  1. "Francisco Rodríguez Adrados" (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  2. "D. Francisco RODRÍGUEZ ADRADOS" (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Archived from the original on 13 July 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  3. "Rodríguez Adrados afirma que existe un cierto menosprecio por la lengua y la literatura". El País (in Spanish). 29 April 1991. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  4. Miguel Ángel Trenas (1 May 1991). "Francisco Rodríguez Adrados: la cultura de la imagen abruma al ciudadano" (in Spanish). La Vanguardia. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  5. "Muere Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, gran filólogo y académico de la RAE" (in Spanish). ABC. 21 July 2020. Archived from the original on 21 July 2020.
  6. "Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas 2012" (in Spanish). ABC. 26 November 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  7. "Nómina de los académicos correspondientes residentes en el extranjero" (in Spanish). Academia Argentina de Letras. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  8. "Members of the Second Section". Academy of Athens. Archived from the original on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
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