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 Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (MCSU) ( pl, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, UMCS) was founded October 23, 1944 in Lublin. It is named in honour of Marie Curie-Sklodowska. Currently the number of students is almost 36,000. The ...

Biography

Andrzej Kokowski was born in

Złotów Złotów (german: Flatow) is a town in northwestern Poland, with a population of 18,303 inhabitants (2011). Today it is part of Greater Poland Voivodeship (province), previously being in Piła Voivodeship (1975–1998). Since 1999 Złotów has b ...

in 1953. He received his PhD from the

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań The Adam Mickiewicz University ( pl, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu; Latin: ''Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis'') is a research university in Poznań, Poland. It traces its origins to 1611, when under the Royal Ch ...

in 1996 with a thesis on the

Wielbark culture The Wielbark culture (german: Wielbark-Willenberg-Kultur; pl, Kultura wielbarska) or East Pomeranian-Mazovian is an Iron Age archaeological complex which flourished on the territory of today's Poland from the 1st century AD to the 5th century AD. ...

. Since 2000, Kokowski has been Professor of Archaeology at

. 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 The archaeology of Northern Europe studies the prehistory of Scandinavia and the adjacent North European Plain, roughly corresponding to the territories of modern Sweden, Norway, Denmark, northern Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. The regio ...

and the

Roman Iron Age The archaeology of Northern Europe studies the prehistory of Scandinavia and the adjacent North European Plain, roughly corresponding to the territories of modern Sweden, Norway, Denmark, northern Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. The regi ...

, particularly cultures associated with the

Goths The Goths ( got, 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰, translit=''Gutþiuda''; la, Gothi, grc-gre, Γότθοι, Gótthoi) were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe ...

Vandals The Vandals were a Germanic peoples, Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland. They established Vandal Kingdom, Vandal kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean islands, and North Africa in the fifth century. The ...

and

Sarmatians The Sarmatians (; grc, Σαρμαται, Sarmatai; Latin: ) were a large confederation of Ancient Iranian peoples, ancient Eastern Iranian languages, Eastern Iranian peoples, Iranian Eurasian nomads, equestrian nomadic peoples of classical ant ...

, 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 The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (german: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) is a foundation established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Rese ...

and the author of hundreds of scientific publications. Kokowski was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit in 2007, and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2014..

Selected works

* ''Lubelszczyzna w młodszym okresie przedrzymskim i w okresie rzymskim'' (Lublin 1991) * ''Gródek nad Bugiem: cmentarzysko grupy masłomęckiej'' (Lublin 1993) * ''Grupa masłomęcka. Z badań nad przemianami kultury Gotów w młodszym okresie rzymskim'' (Lublin 1995) * ''Archeologia Gotów. Goci w Kotlinie Hrubieszowskiej'' (Lublin 1999) * ''Starożytna Polska. Od trzeciego wieku przed narodzeniem Chrystusa do schyłku starożytności'' (2005) * ''Goci. Od Skandzy do Campi Gothorum (od Skandynawii do Półwyspu Iberyjskiego)'' (2007) * ''30 powodów do dumy z mieszkania w krainie Gotów'' (Lublin 2007) * ''Przygoda z archeologią, czyli najstarsze dzieje Krajny Złotowskiej (do czasów lokacji miasta Złotowa)'' (Warszawa 2011)

References

1953 births Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań alumni 20th-century Polish archaeologists Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta Living people People from Złotów Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland) 21st-century Polish archaeologists Maria Curie-Skłodowska University faculty {{Poland-archaeologist-stub

Biography

Selected works

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