The classic philologist and National Literature Prize (2012) Francisco Rodríguez Adrados died today in Madrid at the age of 98, as confirmed by Efe the Royal Spanish Academy, an institution he entered in 1991 with the speech entitled " Praise and vituperation of the tongue . "

Francisco Rodríguez Adrados (Salamanca, 1922) died this morning in the Spanish capital, where he developed his career as a doctor in Classical Philology from the Complutense University and as a professor of Greek at the Instituto Cardenal Cisneros de Madrid (1949), from the University of Barcelona (1951) and the Complutense University (1952), according to the RAE, where he held chair d.

Doctor honoris causa by the universities of Salamanca, San Pablo CEU (Madrid) and Panama, and academic of number of the Royal Academy of History, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados was also a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters and the Academy of Athens, president of honor of the Spanish Society for Classical Studies, director of the magazine Emerita and director of honor of the Spanish Journal of Linguistics.

He was also in charge of the Greek-Spanish Dictionary and the Alma Mater collection of Greek and Latin classics.

Rodríguez Adrades, whom the doctor of Classical Philosophy and former PP disputed Emilio del Río has described as "the last of a generation of titans", was awarded the Aristotle Onassis Foundation Prize (1989) for his work in the elaboration from a dictionary of classical and medieval Greek, the Castilla y León Humanities Award (1997) and the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X el Sabio (1998).

He was also awarded other awards such as the Menéndez Pidal Prize for Research in the Humanities (1988), the González-Ruano Prize for Journalism (2004), the National Translation Prize (2005), the Research Prize for the Community of Madrid (2007 ) and the National Literature Award (2012).

Rodríguez Adrados has also been the editor and translator into Spanish of the work of numerous Greek and Sanskrit classics, as well as numerous publications on Indo-European, Greek and Indian linguistics, on ancient Greek literature and on general theory of history (" Homo sapiens, ancient Greece and modern world ", 2006) - and of literature (" The river of literature ").

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