Bärbel Kramer

Bärbel Kramer (* as Bärbel Krebber on March 26, 1948 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German papyrologist .

Bärbel Kramer attended school in Cologne from 1954 to 1966 and from the winter semester 1966/67 studied Classical Philology and Romance Studies at the University of Cologne and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . In July 1971 she was in Cologne with Ludwig Koenen with a dissertation on Didymos the Blind . Commentary on the Ecclesiastes ( Tura Papyrus). Part 4: Commentary on Ecclesiastes Chapters 7–8, 8 PhD, the state examination in Classical Philology followed in November of that year. From October 1971 to the end of 1974 Kramer was employed at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne, initially as a research assistant, then as administrator of an assistant position and finally as a research assistant. She has been married to Johannes Kramer since 1973 . At the beginning of 1975 she switched to the research department for papyrology of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, which is also located at Cologne University . In February 1982 Kramer became a research assistant at the Institute for Papyrology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . The habilitation took place in Heidelberg in 1991. On July 3, she gave her inaugural lecture and received the Venia Legendi for Greek and Latin papyrology . In 1993 she was a C 3 professor for papyrology at the University of Trier , where she was appointed university professor in August. In 1997/98, Kramer was vice dean of her department, from 1998 to 2001 dean , and from 2004 to 2008 she was again vice dean. She has been retired since 2013.

Kramer edited among other things papyri of the State and University Library Hamburg and the Heidelberg as well as the Cologne papyrus collections. Since 1993 she has edited the archive for papyrus research . From 1995 to 2003 Kramer was a member of the Comité international de papyrologie of the Association Internationale de Papyrologues , and since 1999 she has been a member of the Papyrus Editions Commission of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

• Editor with Dieter Hagedorn : Greek Papyri of the State and University Library Hamburg . Habelt, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7749-2078-8 (Papyrological texts and treatises, Volume 31).
• Editor with Dieter Hagedorn: Greek texts from the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection (P.Heid.IV) . Winter, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-533-03821-1 and ISBN 3-533-03822-X (publications from the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection, NF, No. 5).
• Editor with Dieter Hagedorn: Greek Papyri of the State and University Library Hamburg (P. Hamb. IV) . Teubner, Stuttgart-Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-519-07537-7 ( Archive for Papyrus Research and Related Areas , Supplement 4).

literature

• Raimar Eberhard, Holger Kockelmann , Stefan Pfeiffer and Maren Schentuleit (eds.): “... everyone is equal in front of the papyrus!” Papyrological contributions in honor of Bärbel Kramer . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020645-6 (Archive for Papyrus Research and Related Areas, Supplement 27).

Web links

• Literature by and about Bärbel Kramer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kramer on the website of the University of Trier