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Alexandru Vulpe

Alexandru Vulpe
Born Alexandru Vulpe
(1931-06-16)June 16, 1931
Bucharest, Romania
Died February 9, 2016(2016-02-09) (aged 84)
Bucharest, Romania
Nationality Romanian
Occupation
  • Historian
  • archaeologist
Awards Order of the Star of Romania
Academic background
Alma mater University of Bucharest
Thesis title Necropola hallstattiană de la Ferigile: Monografie arheologică
Thesis year 1968
Doctoral advisor Ion Nestor

Alexandru Vulpe (June 16, 1931 – February 9, 2016) was a Romanian historian and archaeologist, member of the Romanian Academy and director of the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology.

Vulpe was born in 1931 in Bucharest and graduated from the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest in 1954, where he studied ancient history and classical philology.

In 1965, he became a scientific researcher at the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, and in 1968 earned his doctorate in history for Necropola hallstattiană de la Ferigile: Monografie arheologică (The Hallstattian necropolis of Ferigile: Archaeological monograph), supervised by Ion Nestor. Beginning in 1976, Vulpe was correspondent member of the German Archaeological Institute and member of the permanent council of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (IUPPS).

In 2000, Vulpe was made a commander of the Order of the Star of Romania. In 2009, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.


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