Birgitta Eder

Birgitta Eder (born February 4, 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian ancient historian , classical archaeologist and mycenaologist . She is a daughter of Charlotte Eder (née Boeckl) and the physicist Gernot Eder and a granddaughter of the Austrian painter Herbert Boeckl .

Eder studied from 1980 to 1986 Ancient History , Archeology and Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna . Postgraduate studies at University College London followed in 1988/89 . From 1989 to 1994 she was a research assistant at the Mycenaean Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In 1995 she received her doctorate with a dissertation on ancient Greek history at the University of Vienna. From 1998 to 2000 she held an APART scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, from 2001 to 2007 she was again a research assistant at the Mycenaean Commission. From 2007 to 2013 she was academic advisor at the Classical Archeology Department of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the University of Freiburg , and from 2013 to 2019 she was again employed at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology . In 1997 she worked for the Olympic excavation at the German Archaeological Institute . She has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2013. In 2018 she completed her habilitation at the TU Darmstadt in the subject of Classical Archeology with the thesis "Elis and Olympia: the genesis of two centers in one landscape". In 2019 she became head of the Athens branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Eder works on the Aegean archeology of the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages , on the historical topography of Greece as well as on the landscape of Eli and the sanctuary of Olympia. Since 2009 she has been researching in Kakovatos and since 2017 also in Kleidi-Samikon together with the Greek Antiquities Service.

Fonts (selection)

• State, rule, society in early Greek times. A bibliography 1978–1991 / 92 (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Session Reports. Vol. 611 = Mycenaean Studies. Vol. 14). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2140-7 .
• The Sub-Mycenaean and protogeometric tombs of Elis (= Βιβλιοθήκη της Εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας. Vol. 209). Athens Archaeological Society, Athens 2001, ISBN 960-814515-5 .
• Argolida, Laconia, Messenia. From the end of the Mycenaean palace period to the immigration of the Dorians (= publications of the Mycenaean Commission. Vol. 14). Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-7001-2736-7 (Revised version of the dissertation, Vienna, University, 1995: Contributions to early Greek history. The Doric landscapes of the Peloponnese during the "dark centuries" from the 12th to the 9th century BC ).

Web links

• ÖAW, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Athens branch (with picture and list of publications)
• Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Oriental and European Archeology (with picture and list of publications)
• Homepage at the University of Freiburg (with picture and list of publications)
• Page at academia.edu