Victor Spinei

 ( 1943 Births ) 

Since 1990 he has been a faculty member at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași. He has also lectured as guest professor at the Free University of Berlin (Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie), the University of Mainz (Historisches Seminar), the University of Konstanz (Fachbereich: Geschichte und Soziologie), the University of Freiburg (Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften / Fachbereich: Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Archäologie des Mittelalters), and Moldova State University in Chișinău.

Between 2001 and 2015 Spinei was a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy; he became a titular member of the Academy on July 5, 2015, and was elected vice president on November 27, 2015. Directorul Institutului de Arheologie din Iaşi, noul vicepreşedinte al Academiei Române. In: 7EST, 5 December 2015. Retrieved: 12 July 2016. Istoricul Victor Spinei, noul vicepreședinte al Academiei Române. In: Telegraf, 27 November 2015. Retrieved: 12 July 2016.

He is member of several editorial boards, including Arheologia Moldovei, Dacia, Historia Urbana, Studii și Cercetări de Istorie Veche și Arheologie, Res Historica, and Acta Euroasiatica; he also founded and coordinates several academic book series published by the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and the Romanian Academy. Istoricul ieșean Victor Spinei a devenit vicepreședinte al Academiei Române Series Florilegium Magistrorum Historiae Archaeologiaeque Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi by the Iași Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved: 12 July 2016.

Since 2012 he has been a member of the Commission for History and Cultural Studies of the Romanian National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates. Composition of the commission for History and Cultural Studies of CNATDCU

• Nicolae Iorga Award of the Romanian Academy (1982);
• Doctor Honoris Causa of the Moldova State University, Chișinău (2012);Mihai Morăraș, Un parcurs neordinar.... In: Ziarul USM, 10 (133), 22 May 2012.Alexandra Corolea, Istoricul Victor Spinei, Doctor Honoris Causa al Universitatii de Stat din Moldova. In: Ziarul de Iași, 7 May 2012. Retrieved: 12 July 2016
• Professor Emeritus of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași (2012); List of Emeritus professors of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
• Order of the Star of Romania, Knight grade (2017). Iohannis a decorat personalități din domeniul medical și al cercetării. In: Agerpress, 1 December 2017. Retrieved: 6 December 2017

• Moldova în secolele XI-XIV, Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, Bucharest, 1982.
• Spinei, Realități etnice și politice în Moldova Meridională în secolele X-XIII. Români și turanici, Editura Junumea, Iași, 1985.
• Marile migrații din estul și sud-estul Europei în secolele IX-XIII, Editura Institutului European, Iași, 1999.

• Moldavia in the 11th-14th Centuries, Editura Academiei Române, București, 1986.
• The Great Migrations in the East and South East of Europe from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Century, first edition: Romanian Cultural Institute, Cluj-Napoca, 2003, ; second edition: Hakkert Publisher, Amsterdam, 2006, (volume 1) and (volume 2).
• The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century, Brill Publishers, Leiden–Boston, 2009, .

• Les Princes Martyrs Boris et Gleb. Iconographie et Canonisation, Archaeopress, Oxford, 2011, .
• Mongolii și românii în sinteza de istorie ecleziastică a lui Tholomeus din Lucca / Les Mongols et les Roumains dans la synthèse d’histoire ecclesiastique de Tholomeus de Lucca, Editura Universității “Al. I. Cuza”, Iași, 2012, .

• Profile on the site of the Romanian Academy
• Profile on the site of the Romanian Academy — Iași branch
• Profile on the site of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University — Arheoinvest Platform
• Profile on academia.edu