Heikki Solin#
| Membership Number: | 683 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1976 - 1979 Director of the Finnish Institute in Rome
- 1972 - 2003 Docent of Classical Philology at the University of Turku
- 1971 - 1985 Docent of Classical Philology at the University of Helsinki
- Visiting Professor: Hamburg 1990, Oxford 1994 (British Academy Visiting Professor)
- 1985 - 2003 Professor of Latin at the University of Helsinki
- 1965 - 1985 Teacher with various posts at the University of Helsinki and at the Åbo Akademi University
- 1957 - 1959 Teacher of Greek and Latin at the Normal Lyceum of Helsinki
Fields of Scholarship
- Greek and Roman Onomastics
- Greek and Latin inscriptions
- Latin language
- Social history and demography of the Roman Empire
- Judaism in the Graeco-Roman World
- Ancient medicine
- Classical tradition
Honours and Awards
- President of the Classical Association of Finland 1991-2000
- Member of the Societas Scientiarum Fennica 1976
- Member of the Academia Scientiarum Fennica 1983, President 1997-1998
- Secretary General of the Delegation of the Finnish Academies of Science and Letters 1999-2002
- Member of the German Archaeological Institute 1976
- Member of the Council of the Association Internationale d'épigraphie grecque et latine, 1982-1992 its Secretary General 1997-2002
- Member of the Academia Europaea 1989, of its Council 1994-2000 and 2001-
- Chairman of Humanities I of the Academia Europaea 2000-2003, of A.1- ca 2004-
- Permanent delegate of Finland to the Union Académique Internationale 1992- 2002
- Delegate of Finland to the Council of the ALLEA 1998-2002
- Member of the "Internationale Thesaurus-Kommission" 1993-, of its Board 2003-
- Foreign member of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia 1993
- Honorary member of the Societas Philologa Polonorum (Warsaw) 1997
- Foreign member of the Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti (Naples) 1997
- Foreign member of the Reial Academia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona 1998
- Foreign member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 1998
- Foreign member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1999
- Foreign member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften 2009
- Commendatore nell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana 1993
- Humboldt-Preisträger (awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt -Stiftung) 2008
