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Kazimierz Godłowski
Kazimierz Godłowski (December 9, 1934 in Kraków – July 9, 1995 in Kraków) was a Polish archeologist and historian specializing in the prehistoric period. He was the son of Włodzimierz Godłowski, a professor at the Wilno University, who was murdered by the Soviet NKVD in 1940 Katyń massacre. Kazimierz Godłowski was an archeology student at the Jagiellonian University 1951-1955 and from 1955 an academic teacher and researcher at the Institute of Archeology there. 1976-1991 Director of the Institute, full professor from 1983. From 1991 member of the Polish Academy of Learning. Member of many Polish and foreign scientific societies, including the German Archaeological Institute from 1975 and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1994. From 1992 he was co-editor of the ''Monumenta Archaeologica Barbarica'' series. Godłowski conducted research concerned with the chronology of the Roman period, the Migration Period in East-Central Europe, the Przeworsk culture, the ethnic sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraków
Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, economic, cultural and artistic life. Cited as one of Europe's most beautiful cities, its Old Town with Wawel Royal Castle was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, one of the first 12 sites granted the status. The city has grown from a Stone Age settlement to Poland's second-most-important city. It began as a hamlet on Wawel Hill and was reported by Ibrahim Ibn Yakoub, a merchant from Cordoba, as a busy trading centre of Central Europe in 985. With the establishment of new universities and cultural venues at the emergence of the Second Polish Republic in 1918 and throughout the 20th century, Kraków reaffirmed its role as a major national academic and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Przeworsk Culture
The Przeworsk culture () was an Iron Age material culture in the region of what is now Poland, that dates from the 3rd century BC to the 5th century AD. It takes its name from the town Przeworsk, near the village where the first artifacts were identified. In its earliest form it was located in what is now central and southern Poland, in the upper Oder and Vistula basins. It later spread southwards, beyond the Carpathians, towards the headwaters of the Tisza river, and eastwards, past the Vistula, and towards the headwaters of the Dniester. The earliest form of the culture was a northern extension of the Celtic La Tène material culture which influenced much of continental Europe in the Iron Age, but it was also influenced by other material cultures of the region, including the Jastorf culture to its west. To the east, the Przeworsk culture is associated with the Zarubintsy culture. Influences Scholars view the Przeworsk culture as an amalgam of a series of localized cultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Deaths
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing 5,000-6,000 people; The Unabomber Manifesto is published in several U.S. newspapers; Gravestones mark the victims of the Srebrenica massacre near the end of the Bosnian War; Windows 95 is launched by Microsoft for PC; The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered; Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Space station Mir in a display of U.S.-Russian cooperation; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is bombed by domestic terrorists, killing 168., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 O. J. Simpson murder case rect 200 0 400 200 Kobe earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Unabomber Manifesto rect 0 200 300 400 Oklahoma City bombing rect 300 200 600 400 Srebrenica massacre rect 0 400 200 600 Space Shuttle Atlant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 Births
Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people. * January 26 – A 10-year German–Polish declaration of non-aggression is signed by Nazi Germany and the Second Polish Republic. * January 30 ** In Nazi Germany, the political power of federal states such as Prussia is substantially abolished, by the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" (''Gesetz über den Neuaufbau des Reiches''). ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, signs the Gold Reserve Act: all gold held in the Federal Reserve is to be surrendered to the United States Department of the Treasury; immediately following, the President raises the statutory gold price from US$20.67 per ounce to $35. * February 6 – F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Kolendo
Jerzy Władysław Kolendo (9 June 1933, Brześć, Poland – 28 February 2014, Warsaw) was an acknowledged Polish authority on the history and archaeology of Ancient Rome. He was an exponent of the French Annales school, an epigraphist and specialist in the relations between the Barbaricum and the early Roman Empire. Life He was the son of parents involved in education. His father died when he was young and the family moved from Brześć to Białystok where he spent his schooldays. While his desire was to become an archaeologist, he feared his lack of drawing ability would discount his chances of gaining a university place, so he opted to study ancient history. Kolendo graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1955, going on to a masters and a doctoral degree at Warsaw in 1960. He completed his habilitation in history in 1968. He gained a professorship in 1979. The burden of his archaeological research was into the Ancient Mediterranean Basin and into questions of epigraph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryszard Wołągiewicz
Ryszard Wołągiewicz (19 June 1933 – 14 January 1994) was a Polish archaeologist. He was director of National Museum, Szczecin for many years and a well known specialist on the Pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Iron Age in East-Central Europe. Biography Ryszard Wołągiewicz was born in Vilnius on 19 June 1933. His father Fabian Wołągiewicz (1908–1940) was murdered in the Katyn massacre along with other prominent male members of the family, and in June 1940 Ryszard and his mother and brother were deported by the Soviet Union to the Komi Republic. They returned to Poland in 1946, and Wołągiewicz graduated from high school in Choszczno in 1952. In 1952, Wołągiewicz started studying archaeology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, gaining his MA in 1956 with a thesis on the Hallstatt culture. He subsequently worked at the National Museum, Szczecin, and was appointed director in 1980. The research of Wołągiewicz centered on the Pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Iron Age i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marek Olędzki
Marek Olędzki (born 25 April 1951) is a Polish archaeologist who is Head of the Department of Prehistory at the University of Łódź. Biography Marek Olędzki was born in Łódź, Poland on 25 April 1951. Upon graduating from high school in Łódź in 1969, Olędzki studied law at the University of Łódź. He subsequently switched to archaeology, and gained his M.A. in archaeology from the University of Łódź in 1979. He subsequently worked as a researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Andrzej Nadolski. Olędzki gained his Ph.D. at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 1999 under the supervision of . His dissertation was on the Przeworsk culture. Upon gaining his Ph.D., Olędzki became employed at the University of Łódź, where he completed his habilitation in 2009. Olędzki was subsequently appointed a Professor at the University of Łódź. Since October 2017, Olędzki has been Head of the Department of Prehistory at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrzej Kokowski
Andrzej Kokowski (born 1953) is a Polish archaeologist who is a Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. Biography Andrzej Kokowski was born in Złotów in 1953. He received his PhD from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 1996 with a thesis on the Wielbark culture. Since 2000, Kokowski has been Professor of Archaeology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. He is the Founder and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. ostęp 2015-03-16 Kokowski specializes in the archaeology of Poland in the Pre-Roman Iron Age and the Roman Iron Age, particularly cultures associated with the Goths, Vandals and Sarmatians, on which he has managed numerous projects. Kokowski is an internationally renowned authority on Gothic migrations. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the author of hundreds of scientific publications. Kokowski was awarded the Gold Cros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavs
Slavs are the largest European ethnolinguistic group. They speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout northern Eurasia, mainly inhabiting Central and Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the west; and Siberia to the east. A large Slavic minority is also scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, while a substantial Slavic diaspora is found throughout the Americas, as a result of immigration. Present-day Slavs are classified into East Slavs (chiefly Belarusians, Russians, Rusyns, and Ukrainians), West Slavs (chiefly Czechs, Kashubians, Poles, Slovaks and Sorbs) and South Slavs (chiefly Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenes). The vast majority of Slavs are traditionally Christians. However, modern Slavic nations and ethnic groups are considerably diverse both genetically and culturally, and relations between them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tène Culture
The La Tène culture (; ) was a European Iron Age culture. It developed and flourished during the late Iron Age (from about 450 BC to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BC), succeeding the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture without any definite cultural break, under considerable Mediterranean influence from the Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, the Etruscans, and the Golasecca culture, but whose artistic style nevertheless did not depend on those Mediterranean influences. La Tène culture's territorial extent corresponded to what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, England, Southern Germany, the Czech Republic, parts of Northern Italy and Central Italy, Slovenia and Hungary, as well as adjacent parts of the Netherlands, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Transylvania (western Romania), and Transcarpathia (western Ukraine). The Celtiberians of western Iberia shared many aspects of the culture, though not generally the artistic style. To the north extended the contemporary Pre-Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East-Central Europe
East Central Europe is the region between Germanic languages, Germanic, West Slavic languages, West Slavic, and Hungarian language, Hungarian-speaking Europe and the East Slavs, East Slavic countries of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. Those lands are described as situated "between two": "between two worlds, between two stages, between two futures". In the geopolitical sense, East-Central Europe can be considered alongside Western Europe, Western and Eastern Europe, as one of the "Three Europes". The largest East Central Europe academic research groups tends to disinclude Russia and Germany, but appreciate their historical influences in this area. The concept differs from that of Central and Eastern Europe in that it is based on criteria whereby the states of Central and Eastern Europe belong to two different cultural area, cultural and economic circles. Definitions Oskar Halecki Oskar Halecki, who distinguished four regions in Europe (Western, West Central, East Central, and Easter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
