Adolfas Tautavičius (9 September 1925,

Judrėnai Judrėnai is a small town in Klaipėda County, in northwestern Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 468 people. References

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– 10 August 2006,

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) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and

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doctor. In 1950 Adolfas Tautavičius graduated from

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and after four years (in 1954) he defended his thesis, ''Rytų Lietuva I m.e. tūkstantmetyje'' (''East Lithuania in the 1st Millennium AD''). In 1997, he became habilitated doctor with the work ''Vidurinysis geležies amžius Lietuvoje'' (''The Middle

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in Lithuania''). From 1962 to 1987, he was the head of the archaeology department of the Lithuanian Institute of History. Among other excavations Tautavičius researched the

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Klaipėda Castle Klaipėda Castle, also known as Memelburg or Memel Castle, is an archeological site and museum housed in a castle built by the Teutonic Knights in Klaipėda, Lithuania, near the Baltic Sea. The Teutons called the castle ''Memelburg'' or ''Memel'',< ...

, and

Trakai Peninsula Castle Trakai Peninsula Castle is one of the castles in Trakai, Lithuania. It is located on a peninsula between southern Lake Galvė and Lake Luka. Built around 1350–1377 by Kęstutis, Duke of Trakai, it was an important defensive structure protect ...

sites. Tautavičius wrote more than 600 academic publications and articles.

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20th-century Lithuanian historians Lithuanian archaeologists Vilnius University alumni Academic staff of Vilnius University 1925 births 2006 deaths 20th-century archaeologists {{Archaeologist-stub