Ulrich Ruoff

Ulrich Ruoff (born April 4, 1940 in Zurich ) is a Swiss prehistorian .

Ruoff studied prehistory and early history, art history and history at the University of Zurich since 1959 and received his doctorate there in 1974 under Emil Vogt . From 1962 to 2000 he worked as a city archaeologist in Zurich. Until 2012 he was President of the Zurich Section for Swiss Homeland Security . Ruoff and his team played a key role in research into pile dwellings in the 1960s . One focus of his work was underwater archeology . Ruoff was honored with the European Prize for Archaeological Heritage.

Publications (selection)

• On the question of continuity between the Bronze and Iron Ages in Switzerland. Swiss Society for Prehistory and Early History, Basel 1974 (= dissertation).
• Life in the pile dwelling. Aare-Verlag, Solothurn 1991.
• The late Bronze Age village of Greifensee-Böschen. Published by ARV Amt f. Spatial planning and Surveying, 2007, ISBN 978-3-905681-27-7 . (= Monographs of Canton Archeology Zurich 38).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Hunters of the Sunken Village. In the Tages-Anzeiger on March 11, 2010.
2. ↑ agw ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 24, 2011. 

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Ruoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Certificates of first farmers are to become Unesco world heritage. In: Tages-Anzeiger from January 25, 2010