Alfred Twardecki


Alfred Twardecki is a Polish historian of antiquity and translator. He works as curator at the Department of Ancient and Eastern Christian Art in the National Museum in Warsaw. He graduated in 1986 from the Department of History of Warsaw University.
He served as assistant in the Chair of Ancient History of the Warsaw University from 1986 until 1992 when he started at the National Museum in Warsaw. He is the author of many articles and books about Ancient Greece, a scholarship holder of the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the Warsaw University and Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, guest of École française d'Athènes, director of the Cooperation Program between the Warsaw National Museum and the Kerch Republican Historic-Cultural Museum. Since 2008 he is also director of Polish Archaeological Mission "Tyritake" of National Museum in Warsaw. Mission is indefinitely suspended since year 2014. Since 1 February 2012 is curator in chief of the Collection of Ancient and Eastern Christian Art. Since 2016 he is also director of Polish Archaeological Mission "Olbia".
Married, two kids.