Guillermo Rosselló Bordoy

Guillermo Rosselló Bordoy (* 1932 in Palma ) is a Spanish historian and archaeologist.

Life

He studied from 1949 at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, from 1955 at the University of Barcelona , where he obtained a licentiate in Semitic philology. In 1961 he became a member of the Cuerpo facultativo de archiveros, bibliotecarios y arqueólogos and initially worked at the Museo Arqueológico in Seville . He then worked for the Museu de Mallorca , whose conservator he was from 1963 until his retirement in 2002.

Rosselló's work focuses in particular on the history of the Spanish Mediterranean islands of Mallorca and Menorca . He mainly deals with the period of Muslim rule in Mallorca and Arabic ceramics. He is also interested in the prehistory and early history of the island, such as the Talayot ​​culture and the monuments that go back to it. In 1964 he carried out the excavation of the dolmen of Son Bauló de Dalt in the north of Mallorca , from 1965 on the Es Figueral de Son Real site . With Maria Lluïsa Serra (1911-1967) he examined and restored the southern Naveta of Rafal Rubí on Menorca. Further excavations took place at the Talaiot de Pula in the late 1960s . Between 1968 and 1975 he undertook excavations with William Waldren in Son Matge on Mallorca, and skeletal remains of the extinct goat species Myotragus balearicus were found. In 1977 the northern naveta was excavated and restored by Rafal Rubí under Rosselló's direction. In the 1990s he directed the restoration of the Santuari de Son Corró .

He wrote at least 40 books and over a hundred studies.

literature

• Axel Thorer: Mallorca - Lexicon of island secrets . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-455-50006-6 , p. 333.

Web links

• Biography and list of writings by Guillermo Rosselló Bordoy