To Yu-ho, Date of Birth, Date of Death

To Yu-ho

North Korean archaeologist

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1905

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: North Korea

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

To Yu-ho (1 July 1905 – 1982) was a North Korean archaeologist and member of the National People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. To was born and raised in Hamhung.
He earned a doctoral degree at Vienna University in Austria in 1935, was perhaps the first Korean archaeologist and among the first Korean academics to have received their training overseas.
He married a German woman and returned to North Korea in the late 1940s.
Do became a professor at Kim Il Sung University in Py'ongyang in 1947 and served as the director of a number of archaeological institutes through the 1960s.
He also served in several capacities in the North Korean government, including as a representative in the Supreme People's Assembly in the early 1960s and in the National Assembly Standing Committee from the mid-1960s. To was responsible for leading archaeological excavations at North Korean sites such as Kulp'o-ri, Ch'itam-ni, Odong, Allak, Ch'o-do, and Kungsan-ni.
To's major monograph, Choson Wonsi Kogohak, laid the groundwork for archaeological research in North Korea from the 1960s through the 1990s.