Bouzek Jan

Prof., PhDr., DrSc.
Born February 17, 1935 in Prague

Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology
Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic since 2006, vice-secretary of its Section on Humanities

Educational and professional preparation:

Archaeology, 1953-8; Humboldt scholarship at the Tübingen University, 1967-8; CSc,1966; PhD., 1967; First "habilitation" Homerisches Griechenland 1968-69 (publ.1969), but for political reasons was banished.
(Specialized in the Early Greek, Etruscan and Black Sea archaeology, and a series of studies also in European prehistoric, Roman provincial and Far Eastern archaeology and art history. The main field of research is in the contact archaeology (i.e.. relations between the Mediterranean, Black Sea and European civilisations) and in later intercultural relations and the development of the human mind).

Employment and academic positions:

1958 Assistant, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Charles University
1962 Lecturer. First habilitation in 1968 disallowed, Second habilitation in 1980
1983 Assistant Professor
1991 full Professor
1992 DrSc (an equivalent to the old French doctorate)
1989-1991 Vice Dean, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University
1969-91 also Head of the Classical Sub-department, National Museum Prague
2001 Director, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Charles University, currently its Vice Director (part time), teaching at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, and at Masaryk University, Brno
Invitations to guest professorships and study stays (including one to Getty Centre) could not be accepted under the Communist rule. James Eliot Norton Memorial lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America and guest professor, University of Minnesota, both 1989
1991-2 Guest Professor, two terms, Tübingen University and Vienna University, one term
1994, 1997, 1999 and 2000 (one month each time) Directeur d`Études Asssocié of the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
1995-6 Series of guest lectures sponsored by the Soros Foundation, Bratislava Comenius University
2001 Guest Professor, Salzburg University

Involved in numerous excavations in his country, participated in several excavational and survey projects in the Mediterranean; published the results of earlier excavations at Kyme in Turkey and Samothrace in Greece; survey in Cyprus; during 1980-83 as UNESCO expert excavations at Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka); in the nineties excavations at Mušov, a Roman military camp in South Moravia; 1996 UNESCO survey in the city centre of Beirut; from 1994 till now, excavations at Pistiros (Greek inland emporium in Bulgaria). Organizer of a number of international conferences and colloquia whose publications he also edited.

Membership in selected domestic scientific bodies (selection):

1999-2001, Vice Dean, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University
1995-8 Member of the Board, Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Redaction board, Eirene
Editor Studia Hercynia
Scientific Boards, Centre for Theoretical Studies and Archaeological Institute in Brno
(both of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Chairman, Committee for Classical Archaeology, Czech Society of Archaeology
Head, national teams for Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum and Lexicon Iconographicum
Mythologiae Classicae (projects under UNESCO auspices)

Membership and positions in international organizations an societies:

Corresponding member, German Archaeological Institute
Ordinary member, Austrian Archaeological Institute and, French Société d’archéologie
classique,
Member, LIMC International Scientific Committee, and Committees for Amber and for Funeral Archaeology of the Union Internationale des Études Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques Member, International Board for the Black Sea Studies (organizer of its Prague congress in 2005)
Editorial board of the periodical West and East, Leyden-Boston.

Notable awards:

1995, Silver Medal of the Charles University
Honorary citizen of Volterra in Italy and "Dignitario della Ombra della Sera" there
Charles University Rector´s Prize in 1994 for Final Report on excavations in Sri Lanka
Two Festschrifts published to his sixtieth birthday (Eirene 31 1995, with his bibliography, and Studia Hercynia I, publ. 1997), one book (Harding, Bronze Age Europe) and several articles have also been dedicated to him in honour of his 65^th birthday
Two additional Festschriften, one national and international (published by Brill, Leiden) were in honour of his 70^th birthday

Selected publications:

The Knovíz Settlement in NW Bohemia (with D. Koutecký and E. Neustupný, Prague 1966)
Homerisches Griechenland, Prague 1969
Graeco-Macedonian Bronzes, Prague 1974
The Aegean, Anatolia and Europe: Cultural Interrelations in the 2nd millennium B.C., Goethenburg-Prague 1985
Studies of Greek Pottery in the Black Sea Region, Prague 1990
Greece, Anatolia and Europe in the Early Iron Age, Jonsered (Aström) 1997
The Lusatian Culture in NW Bohemia, Most 2000 (with D. Koutecký)
Thracians and Their Neighbours, Prague 2005.

Several volumes of publication reports as editor and main author (Kyme I-II, 1975 and 1980, Samothrace, 1985, Ceylon between East and West, 1993, in collaboration Pistiros I-II, 1997, 2002)
Similarly three volumes of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Czechoslovakia 1-2, respectively, Czech Republic 3, and one of Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum (with J.Gy. Szilágyi, Rome 1992)

More than 350 studies and articles in periodicals published in most European countries and in the U.S.A. Organizer of many exhibitions and two university museums (Hostinné, Litomyšl), conferences, lectures and participations in conferences in many parts of the world, author of several popular books in Czech.

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