Francisco Rodríguez Adrados

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

Rodríguez Adrados was born on 29 March 1922 in Salamanca. He studied classical philology at the University of Salamanca, where he obtained a degree in 1944. He later obtained a doctor with the same specialization 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. He worked at the latter university until his retirement.

He has worked as a translator to the Spanish language on Ancient Greek and Sanskrit texts. He is considered to be an expert on Ancient Greek.

For his work on the Diccionario Griego-Español Rodríguez Adrados received the Prize of the de la Aristotle Onassis Foundation in 1989.

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

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