Anna Sadurska

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Anna Sadurska (née Lenkiewicz ; born September 1, 1921 in Warsaw , Poland ; † March 3, 2004 ibid) was a Polish classical archaeologist .

biography

Anna Sadurska studied Classical Philology and Classical Archeology. Her first job was in the Department of Ancient Art of the National Museum in Warsaw from 1949 to 1951 . During this time she wrote her first academic essays on the influence of ancient art on Polish culture. From 1951 she worked as a lecturer at the University of Warsaw . She was a member of the first Polish archaeological expedition after the Second World War under Kazimierz Michałowski in Myrmekion in Crimea . She then became Kazimierz Michałowski's closest collaborator at the University of Warsaw. In 1957, Sadurska was Michałowski's assistant during excavations in Athribis in Egypt . In 1964, Sadurska published an important work on 19 fragmentary small stone reliefs, the so-called Tabulae Iliacae , showing scenes from the Trojan War . 1970–1971 she directed the Polish excavations in Palmyra in Syria . She discovered the tomb of the 'Alaine family in Palmyra. After Michałowski's departure, she took over the management of the Department of Mediterranean Archeology at the University of Warsaw. She has given lectures at the Department of Mediterranean Archeology and the Department of Art History of the University of Warsaw, the Academy of Catholic Theology Warsaw , the University of Łódź and many scientific institutes around the world. Sadurska was a member of the German Archaeological Institute , the Committee for Ancient Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Philological Society.

Anna Sadurska was married to the lawyer Franciszek Sadurski (born 1911; died 2000). Together they had a son, the lawyer, political scientist and philosopher Wojciech Sadurski (born 1950) and several daughters.

Publications (selection)

Anna Sadurska wrote several books and about 200 scientific articles. She wrote for young people and readers interested in humanism and appeared on radio and television to make the ancient world more popular.

  • Anna Sadurska: Les tables iliaques . Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1964, OCLC 878227628 (French).
  • W cieniu Panteonu. O sztuce starożytnego Rzymu . Wiedza Powszechna, Warsaw 1965 (Polish).
  • Archeologia starożytnego Rzymu . Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warsaw 1975, OCLC 2773693 (Polish).
  • Palmyra - narzeczona pustyni. Dzieje i sztuka . Wiedza Powszechna, Warsaw 1968 (Polish).
  • Sztuka ziemi wydarta: archeologia klasyczna 1945–1970: najnowsze odkrycie i metody badań. Wiedza Powszechna, Warsaw 1972.
  • The portraits romains in the collections of polonaises. Éditions Scientifiques de Pologne, Warsaw 1972
  • Archeologia starożytnego Rzymu. Volume 1: Od epoki królów do schyłku republiki. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1975.
  • Le tombeau de famille de 'Alainê = Grobowiec rodziny' Alainê. Éditions Scientifiques de Pologne, Warsaw 1977.
  • Archeologia starożytnego Rzymu. Volume 2: Okres cesarstwa. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1980.
  • (Ed.): Z dziejów miłośnictwa antyku w Polsce = Sur les amateurs de l'antiquité en Pologne. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warsaw 1989.
  • with Zsolt Kiss : Les sarcophages et les fragments de sarcophages dans les collections polonaises (= Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani . Poland Vol. 2, 2). Academie Polonaise des Sciences, Center d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne, Warsaw 1992, ISBN 83-900096-8-4 .
  • Les sculptures funéraires de Palmyre (= Supplementi alla Rivista di archeologia. 13). Bretschneider, Rome 1994, ISBN 88-7689-103-X .

literature

  • Tomasz Mikocki : Anna Sadurska (1 IX 1921 - 3 III 2004). In: Archeologia. 55, 2004, pp. 161-167.
  • Tomasz Mikocki: Anna Sadurska (1921-2004). In: Światowit: rocznik poświęcony archeologii przeddziejowej i badaniom pierwotnej kultury polskiej i słowiańskiej. 2003, pp. 11-13.
  • Tomasz Mikocki: Obituary Anna Sadurska . In: Michał Gawlikowski, Wiktor A. Daszewski (eds.): Polish Archeology in the Mediterranean . tape 15 . Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2004, ISSN  1234-5415 , p. 11–12 (English, pcma.uw.edu.pl [PDF; accessed on February 25, 2017]).

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personal data
SURNAME Sadurska, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenkiewicz, Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw , Poland
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2004
Place of death Warsaw , Poland