David Wigg-Wolf

David Wigg-Wolf
FSA
Born1956 (age 68–69)
TitleHonorary Professor
Academic background
Alma materOriel College, Oxford University of Oxford
ThesisThe 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 (1986)
Academic work
DisciplineNumismatics
InstitutionsAcademy of Sciences and Literature
German Archaeological Institute
University of Leicester

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"[1] From 1982 to 1984, he went to the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main on the Michael Foster Memorial Scholarship,[2] an exchange program of the German Academic Exchange Service and the University of Oxford.[3][4]

Career

Obverse of a bronze medal with the artistically designed portrait of David Wigg-Wolf in high relief. The sculpturally emphasized portrait is surrounded by a circular inscription with the name 'DAVID WIGG-WOLF' and the year '2024'.
Obverse of the medal for David Wigg-Wolf, designed and cast by Rossen Andreev. Specimen from the Münzkabinett Berlin, object number 18314264[5].

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.[3]

Since September 2024, Wigg-Wolf has held the position of Editor-at-Large at British Archaeological Reports (BAR), a publisher specializing in archaeological works.[6] Since December 2024, Wigg-Wolf has been an Honorary Professor at the University of Leicester in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History.[7]

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.

The reverse of a bronze medal with an enlarged depiction of Celtic coins, which are laid on top of and next to each other in a detailed and vivid manner, creating a layered relief.
The reverse of the medal depicts Celtic coins in enlarged form, arranged one above the other and next to each other in great detail and plasticity.

Wigg-Wolf is also specialized in digital numismatics, having played a decisive role in shaping computer-aided research in this field. Together with the Big Data Lab at the University of Frankfurt, he developed the database "Antike Fundmünzen in Europa (AFE-RGK)", which is used by the Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, the University of Warsaw, the University of Heidelberg and the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. With AFE, coin find data is made available online and linked to other systems.[8]

Since 2011 he has been working closely with the Linked Open Data project of the American Numismatic Society (ANS), nomisma.org,[9] which was initiated by Andrew Meadows and Sebastian Heath and is now being further developed by Ethan Gruber, and is now a member of the nomisma.org Scientific Committee.[10]

As co-chair of the DARIAH-EU[11] Digital Numismatics Working Group[12] and initiator of the European Coin Find Network[13] (ECFN),[3] he promoted cooperation and dialog between institutions that are particularly concerned with digital aspects of coin finds.[4]

Awards and Honors

Publications

By Wigg-Wolf

  • Münzumlauf in Nordgallien um die Mitte des 4. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. Numismatische Zeugnisse für die Usurpation des Magnentius und die damit verbundenen Germaneneinfälle (= Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike 8). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-7861-1595-8 (PhD).
  • with Cathy E. King (Hrsg.): Coin Finds and Coin Use in the Roman World. The Thirteenth Oxford Symposium of Coinage and Monetary History, 25-27 March 1993 (= Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike 10). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1996.
  • with Jeannot Metzler (Hrsg.): Die Kelten und Rom. Neue numismatische Forschungen (= Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike 19). Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3577-6.
  • with Colin Haselgrove (Hrsg.): Iron age coinage and ritual practices (= Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike 20). Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3491-5.
  • with Claudia Nickel, Martin Thoma: Martberg: Heiligtum und Oppidum der Treverer (= Berichte zur Archäologie an Mittelrhein und Mosel Bd. 14). Koblenz 2008.
  • Die Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Deutschland, Abteilung 4, Rheinland-Pfalz. Band 4, 2: Koblenz: der Martberg bei Pommern (ehem. Kreis Cochem) II. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2015.
  • with Thomas G. Schattner, Dieter Vieweger (Hrsg.): Kontinuität und Diskontinuität, Prozesse der Romanisierung. Fallstudien zwischen Iberischer Halbinsel und Vorderem Orient. Ergebnisse der gemeinsamen Treffen der Arbeitsgruppen >Kontinuität und Diskontinuität: Lokale Traditionen und römische Herrschaft im Wandel, und ,Geld eint, Geld trennt< (2013–2017). Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden/Westf. 2019, ISBN 978-3-86757-397-9.

About Wigg-Wolf

  • Pilekić, M. (2024) „Honos in aere signatus – David Wigg-Wolf geht in den Ruhestand", Geldgeschichtliche Nachrichten (GN). Gesellschaft für Internationale Geldgeschichte (GIG). doi: 10.5281/zenodo.13626770.

References

  1. ^ Wigg, David (1986). The circulation of bronze coinage in N. Gaul in the mid-fourth century A.D (PHD thesis). University of Oxford.
  2. ^ "Michael Foster Memorial Scholarship | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk.
  3. ^ a b c "DAI - Wissenschaftlicher Referent David Wigg-Wolf , MA, DPhil, FSA". www.dainst.org. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
  4. ^ a b c Pilekić, Marjanko (2024-09-03). "Honos in aere signatus – David Wigg-Wolf geht in den Ruhestand" [Honos in aere signatus - David Wigg-Wolf retires]. Geldgeschichtliche Nachrichten. 59 (335): 295–297. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.13626769. ISSN 0435-1835.
  5. ^ a b "MK-B | Andreev, Rossen: David Wigg-Wolf 2024". ikmk.smb.museum&view=vs. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  6. ^ "Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
  7. ^ a b "University Fellows and Honorary Staff | Archaeology and Ancient History". University of Leicester. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  8. ^ "Home". afe.dainst.org. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  9. ^ "Nomisma.org". Nomisma.org.
  10. ^ "Nomisma.org Scientific Committee". Nomisma.org. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
  11. ^ "DARIAH | Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities".
  12. ^ "Digital Numismatics | DARIAH".
  13. ^ "European Coin Find Network (ECFN)". European Coin Find Network (ECFN). July 31, 2024.
  14. ^ "Dr David Wigg-Wolf". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2024-09-03.