David Wigg-Wolf
British numismatist
David Wigg-Wolf (born 1956), also known as David G. Wigg is a British-German numismatist.
Education
Wigg-Wolf completed his Master of Arts in Literae Humaniores in 1979 at Oriel College, Oxford University. Supervised by Cathy E. King, Heberden Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum, Wigg-Wolf received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1986 with his thesis on "The Circulation of Bronze Coinage in N. Gaul in the Mid-fourth Century A.D.: the Numismatic Evidence for the Usurpation of Magnentius and its Aftermath" From 1982 to 1984, he went to the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main on the Michael Foster Memorial Scholarship, an exchange program of the German Academic Exchange Service and the University of Oxford.
Career
From 1984, he worked as a researcher on the project "Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Deutschland" (FMRD), financed by the German Research Foundation, which was then transformed in 1986 into the academy project "Fundmünzen der Antike" (FRMD/SFMA) at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. From December 2008 until his retirement in September 2024, he was a senior researcher at the Römisch-Germanische Kommission of the German Archaeological Institute.
Since September 2024, Wigg-Wolf has held the position of Editor-at-Large at British Archaeological Reports (BAR), a publisher specializing in archaeological works. Since December 2024, Wigg-Wolf has been an Honorary Professor at the University of Leicester in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History.
His research focuses in particular on Celtic coinage in Western Europe as well as the coinage of the Roman Empire and the Migration Period in Northern and Central Europe. The importance of coin finds for the understanding of the ancient world is always emphasized, whereby numismatic findings are closely linked to archaeological results.
Wigg-Wolf is also specialized in digital numismatics, having played a decisive role in shaping computer-aided research in this field.
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