Ryszard Wołągiewicz (19 June 1933 – 14 January 1994) was a Polish archaeologist. He was director of

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for many years and a well known specialist on the

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and

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Biography

Ryszard Wołągiewicz was born in

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on 19 June 1933. His father Fabian Wołągiewicz (1908–1940) was murdered in the

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along with other prominent male members of the family, and in June 1940 Ryszard and his mother and brother were deported by the

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to the

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. They returned to Poland in 1946, and Wołągiewicz graduated from high school in

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in 1952. In 1952, Wołągiewicz started studying archaeology at the

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, gaining his MA in 1956 with a thesis on the

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. He subsequently worked at the

, and was appointed director in 1980. The research of Wołągiewicz centered on the

and

. He was the author of many publications on these subjects. He gained a PhD in 1993 with a thesis on the ceramics of 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. ...

. Wołągiewicz died in

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on 14 January 1994. The museum Muzeum Ziemi Choszczeńskiej, founded in 1994, is dedicated to Wołągiewicz.

Selected works

* ''Uwagi do zagadnienia stosunków kulturowych w okresie lateńskim na Pomorzu Zachodnim'', „Materiały Zachodnio-Pomorskie", t. V, 1959. * ''Oblicze kulturowe osadnictwa Pomorza Zachodniego u progu naszej ery'', „Munera archaeologica Iosepho Kostrzewski (...)", Poznań 1963. * ''Uzbrojenie ludności Pomorza Zachodniego u progu naszej ery'' „Materiały Zachodnio-Pomorskie", t. IX, 1963 (z żoną Marią Danutą). * ''Napływ importów rzymskich do Europy na północ od środkowego Dunaju'', „Archeologia Polski", t. 15, 1970. * ''Kręgi kamienne w Grzybnicy'', Koszalin 1977. * kilka rozdziałów w pracy zbiorowej ''Prahistoria Ziem Polskich, tom V'', 1981. * ''Ceramika kultury wielbarskiej między Bałtykiem a Morzem Czarnym'', Szczecin 1993.

Sources

* * Brzustowicz B., Brzustowicz G., 1996, Inauguracha Muzeum Ziemi Choszczeńskiej, „Nadwarciański Rocznik Historyczno-Archiwalny”, t. 3, s. 250–255. {{DEFAULTSORT:Olędzki, Marek 1933 births 1994 deaths Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań alumni People from Vilnius People from Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939) 20th-century Polish archaeologists

Biography

Selected works

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