Barbara Horejs

Barbara Horejs

Barbara Horejs (born February 5, 1976 in Vienna ) is an Austrian prehistoric archaeologist and specialist in the Neolithic , the Copper Age and the Bronze Age in Southeastern Europe , the Aegean and Anatolia . Since June 1, 2013 she has been Director of the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology ( OREA ) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences ( ÖAW ) in Vienna and since 2015 Honorary Professor at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Life

Horejs was born in Vienna in 1976. From 1994 to 2002 she studied prehistory and early history and classical archeology at the universities of Vienna, Athens and Berlin. At the Free University of Berlin, she completed her Magister Artium with distinction in 2002 and was awarded “Summa cum laude” by Bernhard Hänsel in 2005 for her doctoral thesis “The late Bronze Age hand-made ceramics of layers 13 to 1 of the Toumba of Olynth (Agios Mamas). Comparative studies within Macedonia and neighboring cultural regions ”. She was then awarded a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) for this research work.

From 2006 to 2013 Barbara Horejs worked independently or at the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), where she developed several basic research projects that were funded by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF) and the European Research Council (ERC). In 2013 B. Horejs took over the management of the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology, which emerged from the former research institutions Prehistoric Commission, Commission for Egypt & Levant, and the Mycenaean Commission of the OeAW. The restructuring of the institute into a modern research facility led to a positive evaluation by an international committee in 2016 and thus to the permanent establishment of OREA at the Academy. Since 2007 Horejs has repeatedly taught at the University of Vienna ; Since 2015, B. Horejs has also been an honorary professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory.

Within the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Horejs was active from 2011 to 2012, initially as director of the Junge Kuria and since 2015 as a corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class. Since 2016 she has also been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) .

Horejs is (co-) editor of the journal Archaeologia Austriaca (ArchA), as well as the series of publications Mitteilungen der Prehistorische Kommission (MPK), Mykenische Studien, Contributions to the Archeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant (CAENL) and Oriental and European Archeology (OREA) ).

Her main field of activity is the management of excavations, surveys and material studies in Turkey, Greece and the Balkans for the creation and evaluation of new primary sources. The focus is on central questions about human development in the Holocene , which are embedded on a large scale. Intersections of different cultures, knowledge transfer and communication networks, relative and absolute chronologies between the Danube region and the Orient as well as ecological, economic and social developments are part of her expertise. Various scientific analytics and their evaluation with interdisciplinary and international teams are among her basic methods. Her research focuses on the Neolithic, Copper Age and the entire Bronze Age and covers a period of around 8,000 years.

The European Research Council (ERC) funded project “Prehistoric Anatolia. From Sedentism to Protourban Societies ”, during which excavations ( Çukuriçi Höyük ) and surveys were carried out in the area around the ancient sites of Ephesus and Pergamon in western Turkey, as well as the project“ Bronze Age Gold ”financed by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF) Road of the Balkans - Ada Tepe Mining ”. In the course of this project, the exhibition “The First Gold” in the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) was (co-) curated by Barbara Horejs.

Awards

• 2017: Certificate of honor and plaque “Zlaten Vek” (“The Golden Century”) of the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture for the promotion of Austrian-Bulgarian relations in the field of culture and for the mediation and dissemination of Bulgarian culture in Austria
• 2014: Research Award of the City of Vienna for scientific achievements in the humanities
• 2011: Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)
• 2010: Award of the START Prize by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research
• 2005/06: Travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute
• 2005: Award of the sponsorship prize for the best qualification thesis by a young scientist for the dissertation from the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin
• 2003–2005: Scholarship from the Berlin Senate to promote young researchers for the doctoral project until 2005

Memberships

She is u. a. Member of the Editorial Board Studia Praehistorica (Sofia), the Advisory Board of the Journal of World Prehistory, corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , committee member of the Austrian Society for Ur- and Early History (ÖGUF), the Scientific Advisory Board GENOM Austria (ÖAW, CeMM). She is also head of the Anatolian Aegean Prehistoric Phenomena (OREA) research group and a member of the Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). She was director of the Young Curia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2011–2012), member of the steering group of the OeAI (2009–2013) and on the management committee of the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities (ACDH),

Expert activity

She works as a reviewer a. a. for the German Research Foundation , the European Journal of Archeology , the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for Science Funding, the Greek Ministry of Education, Religion and Culture (various funding programs), the Dahlem Research Center Berlin, the Journal of World Prehistory, the Prehistoric Journal , the Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences and the Research Council University Leuwen .

Publications

So far, Barbara Horejs has published three monographs, numerous conference volumes, edited volumes and catalogs as well as over 90 scientific articles on archaeological topics from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age and is (co-) editor of various series of journals and monographs.

Web links

• Homepage of B. Horejs with a detailed biography and a detailed list of publications
• Academia.edu short biography
• Academia-net.org
• Çukuriçi Movie
• Ada Tepe Movie
• Stone Age riddle

supporting documents

1. ↑ http://www.orea.oeaw.ac.at/das-institut/team/horejs-barbara/
2. ↑ http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereich/altertums-und-kunstwissenschaften/ur-und-fruehgeschichte-und-archaeologie-des-mittelalters/juengere-urgeschichte/mitarbeiter/nach-funktion /horejs-barbara-prof-dr.html
3. ↑ History of scholarships - www.dainst.org. Accessed October 31, 2017 (German). 
4. ↑ Barbara Horejs at the University of Vienna
5. ^ OeAW members detail. Retrieved October 31, 2017 . 
6. ↑ European Commission: CORDIS: Projects and Results: From Sedentism to Proto-Urban Societies in Western Anatolia. Retrieved October 31, 2017 . 
7. ^ Prehistoric Anatolia. Retrieved October 31, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Bronze Age Gold Road of the Balkans - Ada Tepe Mining. Retrieved October 31, 2017 . 
9. ^ The First Gold Ada Tepe: Europe's Oldest Gold Mine. Retrieved October 31, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Velina Dimitrova: Почетна грамота и отличие " Златен век " за проф. Барбара Хореш . ( bas.bg [accessed October 31, 2017]). Почетна грамота и отличие "Златен век" за проф. Барбара Хореш ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ m07gra: winners and laureates - Promotion Prices of Vienna. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 27, 2018 ; accessed on January 9, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ detailed list of publications 1999–2017