Claudio García Turza

Professor in History of the Spanish Language at the University of La Rioja in Spain and the Director of the Instituto Orígenes del Español (Origins of the Spanish Language Institute) at the Centro Internacional de Investigación de la Lengua Española. He is a member of both the Royal Spanish Academy of Language and the Royal Spanish Academy of History.

Claudio García Turza is one of the most renowned scholars worldwide in the study of the history of the origins of Romance languages. He has combined his teaching with intense research work covering almost all areas of Hispanic linguistics. His research focuses on Medieval Studies, Spanish Language, Spanish Dialectology and Historical Linguistics of the Spanish Language.