Andrzej Kokowski

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Andrzej Kokowski
Born1953
Złotów, Poland
NationalityPolish
Awards
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
Institutions

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.[1] He received his PhD from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 1996 with a thesis on the Wielbark culture.[2] 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.[3][2]

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.[3] 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.[1][2] Kokowski was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit in 2007, and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2014.[4][5]

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)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Prof. Andrzej Kokowski". umcs.pl. Retrieved 2015-03-16.
  2. ^ a b c "Andrzej Kokowski". zlotow.pl. Archived from the original on 2016-02-13. Retrieved 2015-03-16.
  3. ^ a b "prof. dr hab. Andrzej Jan Kokowski". Information Processing Centre database (in Polish). [dostęp 2015-03-16].
  4. ^ M.P. z 2005 r. Nr 75, poz. 1043.
  5. ^ M.P. z 2014 r. poz. 652.