Career
Born in Madrid on (1940-1907-29)29 July 1940. Doctor of Philology by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1966. Has been Professor in 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 since 1989 Professor in the Universidad Complutense (Department of Greek Philology and Indo-European Studies).
Director of the Project Hesperia for the development of a database for Palaeohispanic data
His main areas of research are: Paleohispanic languages, historical linguistics, ancient Celtic languages, history of writing, preclassical greek literature, Greek epigraphy, and ancient Greek theatre.
