Gilbert Kaenel

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Gilbert Kaenel (2015)

Gilbert Kaenel (born September 17, 1949 in Payerne ; died February 20, 2020 in Moudon ) was a Swiss prehistorian .

Gilbert Kaenel studied archeology at the University of Lausanne and graduated in 1972 Roman Gallo-with a thesis on the glasses of Aventicum with the licentiate from. He then turned to European prehistory and specialized in the later pre-Roman Iron Age called the Latène period . As part of a project for the Swiss National Science Foundation , he compiled an inventory of the Latène period graves in Switzerland in 1975/1976. From 1979 to 1985 he led the excavation of the Bas-Vully oppidum for the National Fund . At the same time, he was a lecturer at the Department of Prehistory at the University of Bern from 1976–1985 and at the University of Lausanne from 1985–1987. A scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation , granted from 1978 to 1982, took him to the universities of Tübingen and Marburg, among others . From 1982 he taught at the University of Geneva, which appointed him full professor in 2002.

In 1985 Kaenel became director of the Musée cantonal d'archéologie et d'histoire de Lausanne , which he headed until 2015. Here he initiated a complete redesign of the permanent exhibition, which began with the complete dismantling of the old exhibition in 1986 and ended with the re-installation in 1997-2000. At the same time, from 1991 to 2014, under his direction, who also received his doctorate in 1990 with a study on the Latène period graves in western Switzerland in Lausanne , around 20 temporary exhibitions were shown on a wide variety of topics from prehistory to modern times.

Gilbert Kaenel was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute from 1992 . In 2002 he became an officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , 2015 Commander of the Order. In 2009 he received the Médaille du Collège de France , where he was visiting professor that year. From 1985 to 2013 he was a member of the Center archéologique européen du Mont Beuvray in Bibracte - the capital of the Gallic tribe of the Haedu -, from 2001 as its president. From 2002 to 2007 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the French Institute national de recherches archéologiques préventives . From 2007 he led the resumed excavations at the La Tène site, which had been discovered 150 years earlier .

Publications (selection)

  • Céramiques gallo-romaines décorées. Production locale des 2ème et 3ème siècles (= Aventicum. Volume 1). Pro Aventico, Avenches 1974, ISBN 2-8802-8001-X .
  • Lousonna. La promenade archéologique de Vidy (= Archaeological Guide of Switzerland. Volume 9). Association Pro Lousonna, Lausanne 1977.
  • Research on the période de La Tène en Suisse occidentale. Analysis of the sépultures (= Cahiers d'archéologie romande de la Bibliothèque historique vaudoise. Volume 50). Bibliothèque historique vaudoise, Lausanne 1990, ISBN 2-8802-8050-8 .
  • L'an 58 - Les Helvètes. Archeology d'un peuple celte. Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Lausanne 2012, ISBN 978-2-8807-4953-8 .

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SURNAME Kaenel, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss prehistoric
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Payerne
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2020
Place of death Moudon