Alfred Twardecki is a Polish historian of antiquity

Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world...

 and translator. He works as curator at the Department of Ancient Art in the National Museum in Warsaw. He graduated in 1986 from the Department of History of Warsaw University.

He served as assistant in the Chair of Ancient History of the Warsaw University from 1986 until 1992 when he started at the National Museum in Warsaw. He is the author of many articles and books about Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...

, a scholarship holder of the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the Warsaw University and Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), guest of École française d'Athènes, director of the Cooperation Program between the Warsaw National Museum and the Kerch Republican Historic-Cultural Museum (Crimea

Crimea

Crimea , or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , is a sub-national unit, an autonomous republic, of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name...

, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

). Since 2008 he is also director of Polish Archaeological Mission "Tyritake

Tyritake

Tyritáke was an ancient Greek town of the Bosporan Kingdom, situated in the eastern part of Crimea, about 11 km to the south from Panticapaeum. It is tentatively identified with the ruins in the Kerch district of Kamysh-Burun , on the shore of the Cimmerian Bosporus...

" of National Museum in Warsaw.

Married, two kids.

External links

• http://www.twardecki.mnw.art.pl/twardecki_eng.htm - professional site
• http://kercz.mnw.art.pl/en/program - site of the Cooperation Program of the National Museum in Warsaw with the Kerch Museum
• http://kercz.mnw.art.pl/en/tyritake - site of the Polish Archaeological Mission Tyritake
• http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alojzy_Twardecki&stable=1 Alojzy Twardecki (father)