Dušan Čaplovič

Dušan Čaplovič ( born September 18, 1946 in Bratislava) is a Slovak politician and archaeologist.

From 1990 to 1992 he was deputy director of the Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra, from 1992 to 2001 he was a member of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (1995-2001 also ask Deputy Chairman of the Slovak Academy of Sciences). 1992-1995 he was a member of the Council of the Slovak Government for Science and Technology. Since 1994 he has lectured at the Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 2001 he has been Deputy Chairman of the political party SMER.

Important Memberships: Member of the International Slawistenausschusses in Warsaw; Representatives of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the International Social Science Council of UNESCO in Paris; Member of the Working Group on Genetic settlement research in Central Europe v Bonn; Member of the Permanent Committee Rulalia v Tervuren in Belgium; Member of the Medieval Settlement Research Group v Durham in the UK

Čaplovič was Deputy Prime Minister of the formed after the 2006 elections, Fico government and the minister responsible for European Affairs, Human Rights and Minorities. He is again the second Minister Fico government, which was formed after the elections of March 2012 on April 4, 2012. He is currently the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports.

Selected Works

• Osídlenie Ostrej scaly nad Vyšným Kubínom. In: AVANS v r. 1977, Nitra 1978
• Orava praveku v, vo včasnej dobe dejinnej a na začiatku stredoveku, Martin 1987
• The situation of Archaeological Research of Middle Ages. Agricultural Settlements in the Territory of Slovakia, in: Ruralia I, 1996
• Etnické zmeny a vývoj stredovekého osídlenia v juhovýchodných oblastiach karpatského oblúku (9th - 12th storočie ). In: Początki sąsiedztwa. Pogranicze etniczne inglese - rusko - słowackie średniowieczu w. Rzeszów 1996
• Oblasts východných Karpat a horného Potisia za panovania Svätopluka I. In: Svatopluk I. 894-1994. Nitra 1997
• Včasnostredoveké osídlenie Slovenska, Bratislava 1998
• Osmičky v našich dejinách (Perfect Brat. 1999)
• Dokumenty slovenskej národnej identity a štátnosti I, II ( Národné literárne centrum Brat. 1998)
• Dejiny Slovenska. Co-authors: Viliam Čičaj, Lubomir Lipták, Ján Lukačka