Ion Niculiţă

The native form of this personal name is Niculiţă Ion. This article uses the Western name order.

Ion Niculiţă Niculiţă Ion
Born	27 May 1939 (1939-05-27) (age 72) Zărneşti, Cahul District
Nationality	Moldova
Fields	Archaeology
Institutions	Moldova State University
Alma mater	Lomonosov Moscow State University
Known for	Thracology

Ion Niculiţă (born 27 May 1939 in Zărneşti, Cahul District) is a Moldovan professor of archaeology, known for his contributions to the field of thracology. He is a relative of the Romanian archaeologist Vasile Pârvan.^[1]

Education

Having attended school in his native village, Niculiţă studied at the Faculty of History, University of Chişinău, from 1958 to 1963. Among his teachers were E. Rikman and R. Enghelgardt. As a first-year student, together with G. Samson, N. Grigoriev and V. Botnariuc he founded the Archeology Student Scientific Seminar (SŞSAIV), which continues to this day.^[2]

Between 1963 and 1968 he worked as assistant to the chair of universal history at the Faculty of History, and 1968–1971 he was a PhD student of archeology at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, studying under such teachers as B. Rybakov, B. Grakov, A. Arcyhovskii, V. Janin, F. Kyzlasov, A. Meliukova and I. Jacenko. His thesis, submitted in 1972, was about the Getae east of the Carpathians in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.^[1]

Academic career

Returning to Moldova he was appointed lecturer in the Ancient and Medieval History Department. Advancing through the ranks, he became Chair of Archaeology and Ancient History in 1984, and between 1993 and 2002 he was Dean of the Faculty of History. In 1991 he obtained his habilitation in history for the work "Northern Thracians in the 6th through 1st Centuries BC".^[1]

Niculiţă's scientific interests are focused on the cultural interactions in Southeast Europe between the end of the 2nd Millennium BC and the beginning of the 1st Millennium AD, in particular: ethnogenesis aspects of early Thracian history, Geto-Dacian history and civilization, Daco-Romanian continuity and processes of Romanization, etc.

In order to focus their research, Niculiţă organized the Scientific Research Laboratory on Thracology in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History in 1990. Under his leadership a number of archeological sites have been studied, such as Dănceni, Suruceni, Butuceni, Hansca, Sobari, Trebujeni, Maşcăuţi, Saharna and those on the Lower Danube as well as Novosel'skoye and Orlivka (Kartal) in Ukraine.

In 1992 Niculiţă was elected member of the International Council of Indo-European and Thracian Studies. Currently he a member of the editorial boards for scientific journals like SCIVA (Bucharest), Istria (Brăila), CUMIDAVA (Singapore) and Tyrageţia (Chişinău).

His efforts through 40 years have resulted in five monographs and more than 120 papers published in national and international journals.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Ion Niculiţă, profesor universitar, doctor habilitat în istorie" (in Romanian). Timpul. 2009-05-21. http://www.timpul.md/articol/ion-niculita-profesor-universitar-doctor-habilitat-in-istorie-2237.html. Retrieved 2011-09-27. 
2. ^ "50 de ani de la fondarea Seminarului de Arheologie (1958–2008)" (in Romanian). Moldova State University. http://www.usm.md/thracology/html/istoricul_seminarului.html. Retrieved 2010-01-17. 

Selected publications

• Niculiţă, Ion; Sîrbu, Valeriu (2007). "The Historical Evolution of Budjak in the 1st–4th c. AD. A few observations". ISTROS XIV: 195–204. http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=9769e5f8-d26b-4106-87af-ffd407ed8c1d&articleId=544fb5e6-4e1a-45f9-b4ed-0833ed4d5d1d. Retrieved 2010-01-17. 
• Niculiţă, Ion (2007). "Contributions made to the study of the burial rite performed by the communities inhabiting East of the Carpathians in the 3rd C. B.C. – 3rd C. A.D.". Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis VI (1). ISSN 1583-1817. OCLC 183256825. http://arheologie.ulbsibiu.ro/publicatii/ats/ats6.1/07/niculita_east.pdf. Retrieved 2010-01-17. 
• Niculiţă, Ion; Zanoci, Aurel; Arnăut, Tudor (2007). "Fortifications of the Early Iron Age settlement Saharna Mare". Tyragetia. serie nouă I [XVI] (1). http://www.nationalmuseum.md/ro/pub/rev/rev_r16_1_niculita_zanoci_arnaut.html. Retrieved 2010-01-17. ^{[dead link]}

• Arnăut, T.; Zanoci, A.; Musteatsa, S., eds (1999) (in Romanian). Studia in Honorem Ion Niculiţă: Omagiu cu prilejul implinirii a 60 de ani [Festschrift on the occasion of his 60th birthday]. Chişinău: Cartdidact. ISBN 997594020X. 

External links

• Laboratory for Thracology Moldova State University
• Niculiţă Ion, doctor habilitat, profesor universitar National Council for Accreditation and Attestation

Persondata
Name	Niculiţă, Ion
Alternative names
Short description	Archaeologist
Date of birth	1939-05-27
Place of birth	Zărneşti, Cahul District, Moldova
Date of death
Place of death