Professor José Remesal, appointed corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Belles Lletres and honored by his colleagues with a vast work
UB Emeritus Professor José Remesal has been appointed corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Belles Lletres of Barcelona. The appointment coincides with the publication of a book to tribute the historian of antiquity with the title Ex Baetica Romam. Published by Editions and Publications of the UB, the book gathers articles by eighty colleagues and disciples from Remesal on the studies about the history of the Near East, the late antiquity, economy in the Roman Empire, and other topics. The book will be presented on Thursday, February 27, at 6 p.m., in the Aula Magna of the Historical Building.
UB Emeritus Professor José Remesal has been appointed corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Belles Lletres of Barcelona. The appointment coincides with the publication of a book to tribute the historian of antiquity with the title Ex Baetica Romam. Published by Editions and Publications of the UB, the book gathers articles by eighty colleagues and disciples from Remesal on the studies about the history of the Near East, the late antiquity, economy in the Roman Empire, and other topics. The book will be presented on Thursday, February 27, at 6 p.m., in the Aula Magna of the Historical Building.
José Remesal (Lora del Río, Sevilla, 1948), is an expert on the economic and political life of the Roman Empire and the research of trade networks based on production, distribution and consumption of food, mainly olive oil from Hispania, an the study of amphorae epigraphy. He leads the group CEIPAC and the collection of publications Instrumenta (Editions and Publications of the UB). He is, together with José M. Blázquez, and has been for more than twenty years, the director of the excavations in Monte Testaccio, an artificial mount in Rome formed by the remains of about twenty-six million broken amphorae. He is member of Alexanfer von Humboldt Foundation, the National Institute of Roman Studies, Casa de Velázquez, the Royal Academy of History, the Office of the International Union of Academies, the German Archaeological Institute, the Royal Academy of Literature of Seville, and was awarded the Humanities prize by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). Author of more than a hundred science projects published in fourteen countries and in seven languages, among his books are La Annona militaris y la exportación de aceite bético a Germania (Madrid, 1986); Die Heeresversorgung und die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen der Baetica und Germanien (Stuttgart, 1997); Estudios sobre el monte Testaccio (Rome, together with J. M. Blázquez, six volumes); Celti (Peñaflor) (University of Southhampton, 200; together with S. Keay and J. Creighton), and Carlos Benito González de Posada (1745-1831): vida y obra de un ilustrado entre Aturias y Cataluña (Madrid, 2013, together with J. M. Pérez Suñé).
Also, another member of the research group CEIPAC, UB lecturer Lluís Pons Pujol, has been appointed corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Belles Lletres.