Log In

Dolf Wild Edit Profile

archaeologist historian

Dölf Wild is a Swiss historian, archaeologist, science writer and works as the chief archaeologist of the city of Zürich.

Background

Dölf Wild grew up in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, and made an apprenticeship as a draftsman at the as of today SIG Sauer in Neuhausen.

Education

He studied history, anthropology and art history at the University of Zurich, and promoted in 1999 on the subject of Das Predigerkloster in Zürich.

Career

He is mainly known for his investigations in the medieval construction history of Zürich and built heritage conservation. Later, he earned the baccalaureate at the cantonal school for adults KME in Zürich. Jahrhundert Since 2001 Dölf Wild is the head respectively chief archaeologist (German: Leiter Stadtarchäologie Zürich) of the city of Zürich, and among others he supervised the 2014/15 excavations at the Münsterhof plaza.