Heikki Solin

Heikki Solin (born September 12, 1938 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish classical philologist and epigraphist .

Heikki Solin studied from 1956 Classical Philology at the University of Helsinki , where he was a student of Henrik Zilliacus . In 1963 he obtained his master's degree, and in 1971 he received his doctorate. From 1965 to 1985 he taught at the University of Helsinki and the Åbo Akademi . From 1976 to 1979 he was director of the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae . Solin has been Professor of Latin Studies at the University of Helsinki since 1985 .

His main areas of research are Roman epigraphy and ancient onomastics , as well as the social history and demography of the Roman imperial era , ancient Judaism and ancient medicine .

Solin is a member of the German Archaeological Institute (1976), the Finnish Academy of Sciences (1983, 1997/98 President), the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia (1993), the Academia Europaea (1989), the Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti in Naples (1997), the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (1998), the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona (1998) as well as the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1999) and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2009) . He has also been a member of the International Thesaurus Commission since 1993 .

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Helsinki with CV and list of publications
• Page at academia.edu