Teodoro (Doro) Levi (1898-1991)

His American friends who had known him in Italy, and a German colleague who often came to excavate in Pompeii, did their best to find him a position at Harvard or at Princeton, at least temporarily. They realised that for an archaeologist in the United States, there were many difficulties. Yet it was his experience in America that counted when he returned to Italy. He had worked with distinguished German and Italian scholars for the Roberts Commission set up by Roosevelt to protect monuments in Italy from bombing. Reinstatedat the University of Cagliari in 1945, he was immediately excused duties and assigned to the General Directorate of Antiquities and Fine Arts in Rome, with special duties in collaboration with the Allies, for the recovery of the artistic and archaeological heritage stolen by the Germans. He accepted, but what he wanted was to appeal for having been excluded as a Jew in a 1938 professorial competition. For thirty years he worked in Athens, as the director of the Italian Archaeological School. In addition to the article, photos, map and timeline, insights.