Willem Albertus van Es

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Willem Albertus van Es (born April 1, 1934 in Groningen ), usually shortened to Wim van Es , is a Dutch archaeologist . For many years he was the director of the Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek (German: "Reichsdienst für Altertumskundliche Bodenuntersuchungen") and excavator of Dorestad .

biography

Wim van Es studied Classical Archeology , Ancient History, and Prehistory and Early History at the University of Groningen until 1959 . From 1956 to 1965 worked as a student assistant and later as a research assistant at Albert Egges van Giffen's biological-archaeological institute . From 1957 to 1958 he was employed at the Drents Museum in Assen and from 1962 to 1965 at the Groninger Museum . As a result, he was involved in the excavations of a Germanic homestead in Wijster , through which many previous ideas about the Germanic economy and way of life had to be revised. In 1967 Van Es received his doctorate with a thesis in this area.

From 1965 to 1988 he was director of the Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek . In this function he was one of the architects of the Dutch soil monument preservation , which celebrated its greatest success with the recognition of soil monuments when the Monumentenwet (Monument Protection Act) was passed in 1988. During these decades he dug in Dorestad and published De Romeinen in Nederland, a standard work on the Netherlands in Roman times that was valid for decades .

In addition to his archaeological and monument conservation activities, Van Es taught prehistory and early history at the Free University of Amsterdam since 1968 , trying to overcome the boundaries between prehistory and early history and classical archeology.

Willem van Es has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences since 1978 . He is also an honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Leuven and a full member of the German Archaeological Institute . In the Netherlands, the “WA van Es Prize” for young archaeologists was named after him

Fonts (selection)

  • De Romeinse muntvondsten uit de drie noordelijke provincies. Een periodisering the relationships . Groningen 1960
  • with Annie Nicolette Zadoks-Josephus Jitta : Muntwijzer voor de Romeinse tijd . Koninklijk Penningkabinet, The Hague 1962.
  • Wijster, a Native Village Beyond the Imperial Frontier . Dissertation, Groningen 1967
  • with Annie Nicolette Zadoks-Josephus Jitta and Wilhelmus Johannes Theodorus Peters: Roman bronze statuettes from the Netherlands 1. Statuettes found North of the Limes . JB Wolters, Groningen 1967.
  • with Annie Nicolette Zadoks-Josephus Jitta and Wilhelmus Johannes Theodorus Peters: Roman bronze statuettes from the Netherlands 2. Statuettes found South of the Limes . JB Wolters, Groningen 1969.
  • De Romeinen in Nederland . Haarlem 1972
  • Rural settlements of the imperial era in the Netherlands . Amersfoort 1982
  • Archeology in Nederland . Amsterdam 1988
  • Romeinen, Friezen en Franken in het hart van Nederland. Van Traiectum naar Dorestat (50 BC - 950 AD) . Utrecht 1994
  • with WJH Verwers: Rise, prosperity and decline of the early medieval trading metropolis Dorestad . In: Klaus Brandt, Michael Müller-Wille and Christian Radtke (eds.): Haithabu and the early urban development in northern Europe . Neumünster 2002, ISBN 3-529-01812-0 , pp. 281-301.
  • with WJH Verwers: Excavations at Dorestad . Amersfort 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willem Albertus van Es: Wijster, a Native Village Beyond the Imperial Frontier . Dissertation, 1967.
  2. ↑ To the WA van Es Prize on the website of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Dutch), accessed on November 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME It, Willem Albertus van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES It, Wim van; It, Willem A. van; It, WA van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Groningen