Victor Spinei

Victor Spinei
Victor Spinei in 2013
Born	(1943-10-26)October 26, 1943 Lozova, Lăpușna County, Romania (now Rep. of Moldova).
Nationality	Romanian
Fields	History, Archaeology
Institutions	Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
Alma mater	Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, University of Bucharest
Doctoral advisor	Ion Nestor, Ștefan Ștefănescu
Known for	History of Romania in the Early Middle Ages, History of Romanian people in the Middle Ages, History of the Age of Migrations
Notable awards	Doctor Honoris Causa of the Moldova State University, Professor Emeritus of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Victor Spinei (26 October 1943, Lozova, Lăpușna County, Romania) is Emeritus Professor of history and archaeology at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, member and Vicepresident of the Romanian Academy. He is a specialist on the history of Romania and the Romanian people in the Early and High Middle Ages, the history of migratory peoples in Eastern and Southeastern Europe during this period, and the production and circulation of cult objects in Eastern and Southeastern Europe during the Middle Ages.

In 1961 Spinei graduated from the Costache Negruzzi National College. In 1966 he received a Bachelor of Science in History and Philosophy from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, after which he specialised at the Institute for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology from Saarland University (1973-1974). In 1977 he earned a PhD from the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History in Bucharest, under Ștefan Ștefănescu (initially under Ion Nestor at the University of Bucharest).

Between 1966 and 1990 Victor Spinei was a researcher at the A.D. Xenopol Institute of History and Archaeology of the Romanian Academy in Iași. The archaeology section split in 1990, forming the Iași Institute of Archaeology (likewise under the aegis of the Romanian Academy), in which Spinei continued his work until 2012. He was the director of the Iași Institute of Archaeology between 2003 and 2011, and has been an Honorary Director since 2014. Since 2015 he has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.