Dinu Adameșteanu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dinu Adameșteanu

Romanian archaeologist

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1913

Place of Birth: Toporu, Giurgiu County, Romania

Date of Death: 02-Jan-2004

Profession: historian, archaeologist

Nationality: Italy, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Dinu Adame?teanu (Toporu, 25 March 1913 – Policoro, 2 January 2004) was a Romanian-Italian archaeologist, a pioneer and promoter of the use of aerial photography and aerial survey in archaeology.
From 1958 to 1964, he was director of Aerofototeca for the Italian Ministry of Public Education, he was a professor of Etruscology, Italian antiquities, and the topography of ancient Italy at the University of Lecce.
At the same university, he was also director of the Institute of Archaeology, of the Department of Scholarship on Antiquity, and of the school of classical and medieval archaeology. As a civil servant, in charge of the Soprintendenze of Basilicata and Apulia, he was notable for his protection of the archaeological sites within the territory under his control, for the creation of a national network of museums, and for advocating the display of archaeological discoveries near the location of their original discovery.