Florin Curta | |
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Born | [1] Romania | January 15, 1965
Nationality | Romanian, American |
Occupation(s) | Archaeologist, historian |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Making an Early Medieval Ethnie: The Case of the Early Slavs (Sixth to Seventh Century A.D.) (1998) |
Academic work | |
Notable works | The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region (2001) |
Notes | |
Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy (2023)[1] |
Florin Curta (born January 15, 1965[1]) is a Romanian-born American archaeologist and historian who is a professor of medieval history and archaeology at the University of Florida. Curta is known for an unorthodox approach and interpretation of the ethnogenesis of the Early Slavs, a hypothesis published first in The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region (2001), and met with negative criticism.