Heide Mommsen

Heide Mommsen

Heide Mommsen , née Scharmer, (born March 19, 1941 in Heidelberg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

Heide Mommsen is the daughter of the biologist Johannes Scharmer and his wife Ilse. She grew up in Ziegelhausen near Heidelberg and received private lessons from her mother from 1947 to 1951. In 1951 she entered the Elisabeth von Thadden School in Heidelberg-Wieblingen , where she passed the Abitur examination in 1960 and the Graecum supplementary examination in the same year .
In 1960 Mommsen began studying Classical Archeology at Heidelberg University and took Ancient History and Greek as minor subjects . After further study stays at the Free University of Berlin (1962), at the University of Marburg (1962–64), she returned to Heidelberg in the summer semester of 1964. In 1966/67 she studied at University College London on a British Council scholarship . Heide Mommsen received his doctorate from Roland Hampe in 1969 in Heidelberg with the dissertation: The affected painter , a mannerist among black-figure vase painters . The Attic black-figure vase painting became her specialty.

After completing her doctorate, she worked from 1969 to 1972 as a research assistant in the antiquities department of the Berlin State Museums . In 1972 Heide Mommsen resigned from her permanent position at the State Museums and instead took on the processing of the Attic black-figure vases from the collection of antiquities for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany , of which she completed three volumes.

After moving to Stuttgart in 1975, she and two colleagues at the University of Tübingen organized a colloquium on ancient vase painting ("Vase Research According to Beazley ") and regularly contributed to the international colloquia on vase painting. Occasionally she also held seminars or exercises at the Institute for Classical Archeology in Tübingen and supervised student work on vase painting.

From 1983 to 1986, Mommsen was involved in the reorganization of the collection of antiquities in the Württemberg State Museum , with presentations, labels, introductory texts and guide sheets. She has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2000 . Between 1996 and 2002 she worked on a total of 31 keywords for Der Neue Pauly .

Heide Mommsen is married to the grammar school teacher Peter Mommsen (* 1938), who was headmaster of the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart from 1989 to 2002 . They have a daughter (* 1972).

Publications (selection)

• Heracles, who had been encamped. (= Winckelmann program of the Archaeological Society of Berlin . 124). de Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-11-003540-5 .
• The affecter. (= Research on ancient ceramics . Row 2: Kerameus . Volume 1). von Zabern, Mainz 1975, DNB 20085223X .
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany , 45. Berlin. Antikenmuseum formerly Antiquarium, 5. CH Beck, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-406-06345-4 .
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Germany, 61. Berlin. Antikenmuseum formerly Antiquarium, 7. CH Beck, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-406-35270-7 .
• Exekias I. The grave tablets. (= Research on ancient ceramics . Row 2: Kerameus . Volume 11). von Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-8053-2033-7 .
• Dionysus and his circle in the work of Exekias. (= Trier Winckelmann program . Issue 19/20). von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3611-X .
• Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Germany, 94. Berlin. Antikenmuseum formerly Antiquarium, 14. CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65335-3 .