Alexander Ruttkay

Alexander Ruttkay
Born (1941-04-24)24 April 1941
Budapest, Hungary
Fields Archaeology

Alexander Ruttkay (born 4 April 1941) is a Slovak archeologist and historian. The head of the Archeological Institute of Slovak Academy of Science in Nitra in 1991-2008.

Ruttkay was born in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated high school in Piešťany (1958), then he studied archeology at the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava (1958-1963). He deals with problems of the settlement structure and historical demography, early feudal settlements in the 9th-13th century, Christianisation and the oldest religious buildings. He worked in leading positions in research and academic institutions in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia. He led a successful field research in archeological sites in Koš - Klatkej kopec, Ducové "Kostelec", Nitrianska Blatnica "Jurko", Partizánske - Šimovany, Nitra - Dražovce, etc.

Ruttkay is a member of international scientific organisations like European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Committee of International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UNESCO), German Archaeological Institute, executive committee of international castellological association Castrum Bene (president of the society, 1998-2000) and others.

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