Jan Filip (born 25 December 1900 in
Chocnějovice
Chocnějovice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 400 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The villages and hamlets of Buda, Buřínsko 1.díl, Buřínsko 2.díl ...
, died 30 April 1981 in
Prague) was a
Czech 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 ...
,
prehistorian
Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...
and
pedagogue
Life and career
He mainly dealt with
Celtic
Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to:
Language and ethnicity
*pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia
**Celts (modern)
*Celtic languages
**Proto-Celtic language
* Celtic music
*Celtic nations
Sports Fo ...
settlement in the territory of
Czechoslovakia, the
Bronze Age and the
Iron Age. He was a professor of prehistory at
Charles University
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. In 1955 he was appointed academician, from 1963 to 1974 he worked as director of the Archaeological Institute and member of the
Czech Academy of Sciences. He wrote numerous scholarly publications, among them two of the fundamental reference works for archaeological research in
Central Europe. He also founded the professional journal ''Archeologické rozhledy'', published since 1949. Which he’d edit for more than 25 years
Filip influenced the generations of Czech researchers who followed him, setting an example with his statements not hindered by national or political concerns. A great part of his work remains relevant to this day.
Publications
* ''Die Urnenfelder und die Anfänge der Eisenzeit in Böhmen'', Prague 1936/37.
* ''Kapitel aus der Kultur unserer Urzeit'', Prague 1940.
* ''Kunsthandwerk in der Urzeit'', Prague 1941.
* ''The Beginnings of Slaw Settlements in Czechoslovakia'', Prague 1946.
* ''Keltové ve střední evropě''. (Die Kelten in Mitteleuropa.) Monumenta Archaeologica 5. Verlag Akademie der Wissenschaften, Prague 1956.
* ''Die keltische Zivilisation'', Prague 1961.
* Jan Filip et alia: ''Enzyklopädisches Handbuch zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Europas.'' Akademia. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Prague 1966-1969. 2 volumes.
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Czech prehistorians
Czechoslovak archaeologists
1900 births
1981 deaths
Herder Prize recipients
Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy