Jeannette Nolen
Jeannette Nolen (1930 - 2016) was a Dutch archaeologist who carried out extensive research in Portugal. Jeannette Ulrica Smit-Nolen was born on 10 August 1930 in Alblasserdam, Netherlands. She spent some time in the Netherlands and the United States. After her marriage to William Nolen, she worked at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This was considered to be too far away from the Netherlands where her husband remained. Thus, the couple visited Portugal to see the ruins of Conímbriga, one of the largest Roman settlements excavated in Portugal, and to investigate whether Jeannette Nolen could find a job in Portugal that was closer to the Netherlands. In Conímbriga, she met Jorge de Alarcão, Director of the Institute of Archaeology in Coimbra, and his wife, who launched her into Portuguese archaeology. The two couples were to become good friends. Her husband obtained a job as an English teacher at the University of Lisbon. They lived in the village of Janes, in the Municipality of Cascais. One of her first works was the excavation of the Santo André Necropolis in Montargil, together with João Viegas and Maria Luísa Ferrer Dias. She then worked at Conímbriga with Dias on the