Alexandru Vulpe (June 16, 1931 – February 9, 2016) was a Romanian historian and

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

, member of the Romanian Academy and director of the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology.

Life

Vulpe was born in 1931 in Bucharest, the son of archaeologists and . He graduated from the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest in 1954, where he studied ancient history and classical philology. In 1965, he became a scientific researcher at the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, and in 1968 earned his doctorate in history for ''Necropola hallstattiană de la Ferigile: Monografie arheologică'' (''The Hallstattian necropolis of Ferigile: Archaeological monograph''), supervised by Ion Nestor. Beginning in 1976, Vulpe was correspondent member of the German Archaeological Institute and member of the permanent council of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (IUPPS). In 2000, Vulpe was made a commander of the Order of the Star of Romania. In 2009, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent
at the Romanian Academy site

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