Paul Vouga

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Paul Vouga (born June 4, 1880 in Marin-Epagnier ; † May 21, 1940 in Neuchâtel ) was a Swiss archaeologist who is best known today for his excavations at the La Tène site in Marin-Epagnier and at stilt houses in western Switzerland . However, he was also one of the first in Switzerland to excavate a Mesolithic dwelling , the Le Col-des-Roches near Locle.

Paul Vouga was the son of the excavator of La Tène, Émile Vouga (1837-1904). He received his doctorate in Bern in 1905 with a thesis on Essai sur l'origine des habitants du Val de Travers (1906). He was a curator at the Museum of Neuchâtel and a university professor. From 1933 he was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

After his death, Théodore Delachaux was appointed curator of the prehistoric collections of the Museum of History and Archeology and taught at the University of Neuchâtel Vougas.

Works

  • Essai sur l'origine des habitants du Val de Travers (Halle / Saale, Karras, 1906)
  • Fouilles d'un groupe de tumulus dans la forêt de Bussy, près de Valangin (Neuchâtel) (Genève: A. Kundig, 1920)
  • On the cultural-historical position of stilt houses in western Switzerland (Vienna, F. Jasper, 1924).

literature

  • Marc-Antoine Kaeser (ed.): De la mémoire à l'histoire: l'œuvre de Paul Vouga (1880–1940), des fouilles de La Tène au “neolithique lacustre” . Archeology neuchâteloise 35, 2006, ISBN 2-940347-31-X

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personal data
SURNAME Vouga, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Marin-Epagnier
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1940
Place of death Neuchâtel