[gothic-l] Visigoths and Ostrogoths

[andreas.schwarcz at UNIVIE.AC.AT]

Dear Bertil, 
my friend Andrzej Kokowsi, who is responsible for "Die Schätze der 
Ostgoten", is an excellent archeologist, but unfortunately not a 
historian and he did not use (and did not cite) Wolfram's and 
Heather's books on the Goths for his historic introduction, but relied 
on older historic literature. In the archeological part of the catalogue 
he follows the mainstream of modern Polish archeology and defines 
the Wielbark culture as autochthonous. His attempt to combine Ernst 
Schwarz and Wenskus as historians with his archeological expertise 
gives a misleading picture. It was a nice exhibition at Holzminden 
(and I gave a lecture on the history of the Goths there which gave a 
slightly different view at least to the people who attended it), but I 
would not rely on Andrzej Kokowski's historic introduction to the very 
fine archeological catalogue he produced for it.
Kind regards
              Andreas  
ao.Univ.Prof.Dr.Andreas Schwarcz
Institut fuer oesterreichische Geschichtsforschung
Universitaet Wien
Dr.Karl-Lueger-Ring 1
A 1010 Wien
Oesterreich
tel.0043/1/42-77/272-16
fax 0043/1/42-77/92-72
email andreas.schwarcz at univie.ac.at


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