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Kastelic, Jožef

(1913– )

The Slovenian archaeologist, ancient historian, and poet Jožef Kastelic graduated in classical philology and ancient history from the University of Ljubljana in 1939 and completed his Ph.D. at the same university in 1943. Between 1942 and 1968, Kastelic worked at the National Museum in Ljubljana and became its director in 1945. He was also professor of classical archaeology, Roman provincial archaeology, and ancient history at the University of Ljubljana between 1968 and 1983 and professor of ancient history at the University of Maribor (Slovenia) between 1985 and 1989. Kastelic is a member of German Archaeological Society, the Institute of Etruscan and Italic Studies in Florence, and the Italian Institute of Pre- and Protohistory.

One of the most influential archaeologists in slovenia, Kastelic is credited along with colleague josip korošec for the revival of archaeological work in Slovenia and Yugoslavia after World War II. He continued the National Museum’s long tradition as the central and national archaeological institution and established some of the important series and journals: Arheoloski katalogi, Situla, and Argo. Kastelic organized many influential exhibitions, such as Umetnost alpskih Ilirov in Venetov (Situla Art between Po and Danube) in Ljubljana in 1962. He was one of the founders of early Slavic archaeology in Slovenia after 1945. Between 1948 and 1949, he excavated at large early Slavic cemetery in Bled (see Slovanska nekropola na Bledu [Ljubljana 1950] and Slovanska nekropola na Bledu [Ljubljana 1960]). Kastelic excavated a large barrow in stična between 1946 and 1953 and participated in many joint Yugoslav research projects, among them research in Yugoslav Macedonia at the sites of Demir Kapija and Trebeniste. As the head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Ljubljana, he decisively molded and defined its new and articulated structure in the 1960s and 1970s.

Bojan Djuric

References

“Opuscula losepho Kastelic sexagenario dicata.” 1974. Situla (Ljubljana) 14–15. Contains bibliography.

Keller, Ferdinand

(1800–1881)

Ferdinand Keller was the founder of the lake-dwellings theory, a member of the old bourgeoisie of Zurich, and an English teacher at the Technicum there, and he was the most prominent archaeologist in switzerland in the nineteenth century.

After studying theology and then natural science in Paris, Keller went to England where he was a private tutor, and where he met sir richard colt hoare in Wiltshire. Colt Hoare was the owner of a rich collection of prehistoric relics, and although Keller was primarily fascinated by Celtic antiquities, he was strongly influenced by a visit to the Salisbury burial mounds and Stonehenge.

He returned to Zurich and discovered the Burgholzli mounds, which led him to found the Antiquarian Society of Zurich in 1832, the first organization of its kind in Switzerland. His interests went beyond prehistory to include all vestiges of the past, from Roman colonies to religious architecture, not forgetting medieval paleography. Thanks to his eclecticism, his mastery of languages, and his easy social nature, he was constantly in contact with a very large network of archaeologists and antiquarians both in Switzerland and abroad. His correspondence remains an extraordinary source of original information, and much of it is yet unpublished.

Despite the variety and quantity of his research, it was the discovery of the lake dwellings themselves that gave him exceptional fame. During the winter of 1853–1854, a record lowering of the water level in Lake Zurich led to the discovery, in Obermeilen, of pile fields accompanied