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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Victor Spinei
| image = File:Victor Spinei public December 2012.jpg
| image_size = 260px
| caption = Victor Spinei in 2013
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|10|26}}
| birth_place = [[Lozova, Strășeni|Lozova]], [[Lăpușna County (Romania)|Lăpușna County]], [[Romania]] (now [[Republic of Moldova|Rep. of Moldova]]).
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| nationality = [[Romanian people|RomanianRomania]]n
| ethnicity =
| field = [[History]], [[Archaeology]]
| work_institutions = [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza University]]
| alma_mater = [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza University]], <br/>[[University of Bucharest]]
|doctoral_advisor doctoral_advisors = [[Ion Nestor]], <br/>[[Ștefan Ștefănescu]]
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = History of Romania in the Early Middle Ages, History of Romanian people in the Middle Ages, History of the Age of Migrations
| influences =
| influenced =
| prizes = Doctor ''Honoris Causa'' of the [[Moldova State University]], Professor Emeritus of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
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'''Victor Spinei''' (born 26 October 1943, in [[Lozova, Strășeni|Lozova]], [[Lăpușna County (Romania)|Lăpușna County]], [[Romania]]<ref name="cv">{{cite web|url=http://arheoinvest.uaic.ro/wp-content/uploads/CV_Victor-Spinei_2016.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae of Victor Spinei}}</ref>) is Emeritus Professor of [[history]] and [[archaeology]] at the [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza University]], member and Vicepresidentvice president of the [[Romanian Academy]].<ref>[http://www.acad.ro/bdar/armembri.php Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent], ''Academia Română''</ref> He is a specialist on the history of Romania and the Romanian people in the [[Early Middle Ages|Early]] and [[High Middle Ages]], the history of migratory peoples in Eastern and Southeastern Europe during this period, and the production and circulation of [[cult image|cult objects]] in Eastern and Southeastern Europe during the Middle Ages.
 
==Education==
In 1961 Spinei graduated from the [[Costache Negruzzi National College]]. In 1966 he received a Bachelor of Science in History and Philosophy from the [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza University]], after which he specialised at the Institute for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology from [[Saarland University]] (1973–1974).<ref name="cv"/> In 1977 he earned a PhD from the [[Nicolae Iorga Institute of History]] in Bucharest, under [[Ștefan Ștefănescu]] (initially under [[Ion Nestor]] at the [[University of Bucharest]]).<ref name="cv"/>
 
==Career==
Between 1966 and 1990 Spinei was a researcher at the [[A.D. Xenopol Institute of History and Archaeology]] of the Romanian Academy in Iași. The archaeology section split in 1990, forming the [[Iași Institute of Archaeology]] (likewise under the aegis of the Romanian Academy), in which Spinei continued his work until 2012.<ref name="cv"/> He was the director of the Iași Institute of Archaeology between 2003 and 2011, and has been an Honorary Director since 2014. Since 2015 he has been a corresponding member of the [[German Archaeological Institute]].<ref name="cv"/>
 
Since 1990 he has been a [[Faculty (academic staff)|faculty member]] at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași. He has also lectured as guest professor at the [[Free University of Berlin]] (Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie), the [[University of Mainz]] (Historisches Seminar), the [[University of Konstanz]] (Fachbereich: Geschichte und Soziologie), the [[University of Freiburg]] (Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften / Fachbereich: Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Archäologie des Mittelalters), and [[Moldova State University]] in [[Chișinău]].<ref name="cv"/>
 
Between 2001 and 2015 Spinei was a corresponding member of the [[Romanian Academy]]; he became a titular member of the Academy on July 5, 2015, and was elected vice president on November 27, 2015.<ref>[http://www.7est.ro/acasa0/item/55181-directorul-institutului-de-arheologie-din-iasi-noul-vicepresedinte-al-academiei-romane.html Directorul Institutului de Arheologie din Iaşi, noul vicepreşedinte al Academiei Române]. In: ''7EST'', 5 December 2015. Retrieved: 12 July 2016.</ref><ref>[http://www.telegrafonline.ro/istoricul-victor-spinei-noul-vicepresedinte-al-academiei-romane Istoricul Victor Spinei, noul vicepreședinte al Academiei Române]. In: ''Telegraf'', 27 November 2015. Retrieved: 12 July 2016.</ref>
 
He is member of several editorial boards, including ''Arheologia Moldovei'', ''Dacia'', ''Historia Urbana'', ''Studii și Cercetări de Istorie Veche și Arheologie'', ''Res Historica'', and ''Acta Euroasiatica''; he also founded and coordinates several academic [[book series]] published by the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and the Romanian Academy.<ref name="cv"/><ref>[http://www.editura.uaic.ro/stiri.php?id=218 Istoricul ieșean Victor Spinei a devenit vicepreședinte al Academiei Române]</ref><ref>[http://www.arheo.ro/florilegium-magistrorum-historiae-archaeologiaeque-antiquitatis-et-medii-aevi/ Series ''Florilegium Magistrorum Historiae Archaeologiaeque Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi''] by the [[Iași Institute of Archaeology]]. Retrieved: 12 July 2016.</ref>
 
Since 2012 he has been a member of the Commission for History and Cultural Studies of the Romanian National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates.<ref>[http://www.cnatdcu.ro/paneluri-cnatdcu/incepand-cu-data-de-7-septembrie-2012/stiinte-umaniste-si-arte/comisia-de-istorie-si-studii-culturale/ Composition of the commission for History and Cultural Studies of CNATDCU]</ref>
 
==Honors and awards (selected)==
* [[Nicolae Iorga Award]] of the Romanian Academy (1982);
* Doctor ''Honoris Causa'' of the Moldova State University, Chișinău (2012);<ref>Mihai Morăraș, [http://www.usm.md/wp-content/uploads/ziar/133_25%20mai,%202012.%20Nr.10%20(133).pdf Un parcurs neordinar...]. In: ''Ziarul USM'', 10 (133), 22 May 2012.</ref><ref>Alexandra Corolea, ''[http://www.ziaruldeiasi.ro/local/istoricul-victor-spinei-doctor-honoris-causa-al-universitatii-de-stat-din-moldova~ni8fm2 Istoricul Victor Spinei, Doctor Honoris Causa al Universitatii de Stat din Moldova]''. In: ''Ziarul de Iași'', 7 May 2012. Retrieved: 12 July 2016</ref>
* [[Professor Emeritus]] of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași (2012);<ref>[https://www.uaic.ro/despre-uaic/scurt-istoric/titluri-onorifice/professor-emeritus/ List of Emeritus professors of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University]</ref>
* [[Order of the Star of Romania]], Knight grade (2017).<ref>[https://www.agerpres.ro/politica/2017/12/01/iohannis-a-decorat-personalitati-din-domeniul-medical-si-al-cercetarii-18-20-54 Iohannis a decorat personalități din domeniul medical și al cercetării]. In: Agerpress, 1 December 2017. Retrieved: 6 December 2017</ref>
 
==Selected works==
 
===Monographs===
 
====In Romanian====
* ''Moldova în secolele XI-XIV'', Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, Bucharest, 1982.
* ''Spinei, Realități etnice și politice în Moldova Meridională în secolele X-XIII. Români și turanici'', Editura Junumea, Iași, 1985.
* ''Marile migrații din estul și sud-estul Europei în secolele IX-XIII'', Editura Institutului European, Iași, 1999.
 
====In English====
* ''Moldavia in the 11th-14th Centuries'', Editura Academiei Române, București, 1986.
* ''The Great Migrations in the East and South East of Europe from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Century'', first edition: [[Romanian Cultural Institute]], Cluj-Napoca, 2003, {{ISBN |9789738589452}}; second edition: Hakkert Publisher, Amsterdam, 2006, {{ISBN |90-256-1207-5}} (volume 1) and {{ISBN |90-256-1214-8}} (volume 2).
* ''The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century'', [[Brill Publishers|Brill]], Leiden–Boston, 2009, {{ISBN |978-90-04-17536-5}}.
 
====In French====
* ''Les Princes Martyrs Boris et Gleb. Iconographie et Canonisation'', Archaeopress, Oxford, 2011, {{ISBN |978-1-4073-0902-6}}.
* ''Mongolii și românii în sinteza de istorie ecleziastică a lui Tholomeus din Lucca / Les Mongols et les Roumains dans la synthèse d’histoire ecclesiastique de Tholomeus de Lucca'', Editura Universității “Al. I. Cuza”, Iași, 2012, {{ISBN |978-973-703-737-4}}.
 
===Edited volumes===
 
===Studies===
 
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==External links==
*{{roin iconlang|ro}} [http://www.acad.ro/birouPrez/birou_vice01Spinei.htm Profile on the site of the Romanian Academy]
*{{roin iconlang|ro}} [http://acadiasi.ro/spinei.htm Profile on the site of the Romanian Academy — Iași branch]
*{{in lang|en}} [http://arheoinvest.uaic.ro/about/people/victor-spinei/ Profile on the site of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University — Arheoinvest Platform]
*{{in lang|en}} [https://csde.academia.edu/VictorSpinei/ Profile] on [[academia.edu]]
 
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