Giovanni Lilliu Explained

Giovanni Lilliu (13 March 1914 in Barumini, Italy – 19 February 2012 in Cagliari), was a renowned archeologist, academician, publicist and politician and public figure and an expert of the Nuragic civilization. Largely due to his scientific and archeologic work in the Su Nuraxi di Barumini in Sardinia, Italy,[1] the site was inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.

Biography

Graduated in Classics, he was a student of Ugo Rellini at the "National School of Archaeology" in Rome, where he obtained his specialization. From 1943 to 1945 he worked in the "Superintendency of Antiquities of Sardinia". In 1972 he founded and then directed for twenty years the "School of specialization in Sardinian Studies" of the University of Cagliari, holding the role of Full Professor of Paleethnology teaching Sardinian Antiquities.

He considered himself, together with Ernesto de Martino and Alberto Mario Cirese, one of the founders of the Anthropological School of Cagliari, both as professor of Paleethnology, and as founder and then for a long time President of the Higher Regional Ethnographic Institute (ISRE) of Nuoro, and especially for his broad transdisciplinary interests in the study of Prehistory. For a long time he was Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy.

He directed the magazine "Studi Sardi" and the "Nuovo Bollettino Archeologico Sardo". He also carried out political activity at a local level, having been a regional councilor from 1969 to 1974 and a municipal councilor in Cagliari from 1975 to 1980, always in the ranks of the Democrazia Cristiana.[2] He was a member of numerous Italian and foreign scientific institutes and since 1990 an Academician of the Accademia dei Lincei.

In 2007 he received the "Sardus Pater" honor[3] from the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, established in that year as a recognition to be given to Italian and foreign citizens who have distinguished themselves for particular merits of cultural, social or moral value and have given prestige to Sardinia. He died in Cagliari on 19 February 2012 at the age of 97.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.sardinien.com/rundreisen/sarcidano_marmilla/sunuraxi.cfm Sardinien.com: Die Nuraghenfestung Su Nuraxi
  2. http://www.lanuovasardegna.gelocal.it/regione/2012/02/20/news/La-vita-e-le-opere-di-un-profeta-ottimista-1.3669477 Giulio Angioni, La vita e le opere di un profeta ottimista, "La Nuova Sardegna", 20,02, 2012
  3. Web site: 21 December 2008 . 27 October 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211027103802/https://www.regione.sardegna.it/j/v/13?&s=66832&v=2&c=392&t=1 . Notizia dal sito ufficiale della Regione sarda .
  4. http://www.unionesarda.it/Articoli/Articolo/254451 È morto l'archeologo Lilliu Guru della civiltà nuragica

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