Brigitte Borell-Seidel

Brigitte Borell-Seidel , née Brigitte Borell , is a German classical archaeologist .

Brigitte Borell passed her Abitur in 1968 at the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium Heidelberg . Then she studied until 1975 with a major in Classical Archeology, with the minor subjects Egyptology , Byzantine Studies , Ancient Greek and Art History at the Universities of Munich , Heidelberg and Würzburg .

It was started in 1976 at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the subject of Attic-geometric shells. A late Geometric class of ceramics and its relationship to the Orient is doing his doctorate. For her basic work on this type of ceramic, she was awarded the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute for 1976/77 , with the help of which she was able to travel to the Mediterranean . Before that, she was briefly deputy of the research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of Heidelberg University and research assistant for the excavations in Olympia at the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1978/79 Borell worked again in Athens to process the Sphyrelata sheets from Brunnen 17 StN in Olympia. Later she worked on, among other things, the metal artifacts of the Heidelberg university collection and wrote a catalog for these pieces. After that she worked as a freelancer.

From 1994 to 1997 she took part in the excavations in Singapore led by John N. Miksic , at which time she also lived in the city, from 2000 to 2004 in Rome and from 2004 to 2006 in Ho Chi Minh City . Around the turn of the millennium, she was involved in a project initiated by Wolfram Nagel with Singapore in pre-colonial times. Borell has lived in Heidelberg since 2006 and teaches at the university.

Fonts

• Attic-geometric shells. A late Geometric type of ceramics and their relationship to the Orient (= ceramic research . Volume 2). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-8053-0237-1 .
• Catalog of the antique cabaret collection of the Archaeological Institute of Heidelberg University. Volume 3, Part 1: Statuettes, vessels and other metal objects. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-8053-0970-8 .
• Oriental and Greek bronze reliefs from Olympia. The complex from fountain 17 (= Olympic research. Volume 26). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-015091-3 .
• Singapore in pre-colonial times. Written tradition and archaeological evidence. An interim balance (= treatises for the customer of the Orient. Volume 53.2). Ergon, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-933563-95-X .

Web links

• Borell on the Heidelberg University website