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.

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]

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