Robert Laffineur
Archaeologist
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| Intro | Archaeologist | |
| Places | Belgium | |
| is | Archaeologist | |
| Work field | Social science | |
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| Birth | 1945 | |
| Age | 80 years |
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Robert Laffineur is emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of Liège and an authority on Mycenaean Greece. He is the founder and co-organizer of the Rencontres égéennes internationales (International Aegean Conferences) in 1986, and editor of Aegaeum. Annales liégeoises d’archéologie égéenne which has been published in forty-two volumes since 1987. In 2014, he was appointed as Honorary Consul of the Hellenic Republic in Liège.
In 2016, he received a festschrift of studies of the Mycenaean world on his 70th birthday edited by Jan Driessen.