Barbara Borg

Barbara Elisabeth Borg (born December 26, 1960 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Barbara Borg studied classical archeology , philosophy and geology at the University of Bochum between 1981 and 1985 , and at the University of Göttingen from 1985 to 1990 , where she replaced philosophy with ancient history . In 1990 he completed his doctorate in Göttingen, supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . The subject of the dissertation was “ Mummy portraits . Chronology and cultural context ”. Borg was then able to travel to the Mediterranean region with the help of the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). In 1993, Borg became a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of Heidelberg University . From 1997 to 1999 she was on leave and, thanks to a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation, worked on her habilitation, which took place in Heidelberg in 1999. The theme was “The Logos of Myth. Allegories and Personifications in Early Greek Art ”. After her habilitation , Borg became a university lecturer in Heidelberg. From 2002 to 2004, Borg acted as director of the archaeological institute there, representing the chair holder Tonio Hölscher . In late 2004 she was appointed Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter .

Borg is a corresponding member of the DAI, a member of the Advisory Board of the Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies and has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2012 .

Fonts

Mummy portraits. Chronology and cultural context. von Zabern, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-8053-1742-5 .
"The most delicate sight in the world ...". Egyptian portrait mummies (= ancient world . Special issue = Zabern's illustrated books on archeology . ) Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2264-X and ISBN 3-8053-2263-1 .
The logos of the myth. Allegories and Personifications in Early Greek Art. Fink, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-7705-3654-1 (also: Heidelberg, University, habilitation paper, 1999).
as editor: Paideia. The world of the second Sophistic (= Millennium Studies. Volume 2). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2004, ISBN 3-11-018231-9 .
with Henner von Hesberg and Andreas Linfert : The ancient sculptures in Castle Howard (= Monumenta artis Romanae. Volume 31, Ancient sculptures in English castles. ). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-89500-440-5 .
Crisis and ambition. Tombs and burial customs in third-century CE Rome ( Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation ). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-967273-8 .
as editor: A companion to Roman art ( Blackwell companions to the ancient world ). Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-1-4051-9288-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Borg, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Borg, Barbara E .; Müller, Barbara E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 26, 1960