Brinna Otto

Brinna Dorothea Otto (born July 21, 1938 in Mannheim ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Brinna Otto was born in 1972 with Tonio Hölscher at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the subject of geometric ornaments on Anatolian ceramics. Symmetries frühester decorative forms in the Middle East and the Aegean doctorate . She then worked as a research assistant at the Heidelberg Institute until 1974. The habilitation took place in 1982 with the thesis The Decorated Ceramics of the Sesklo and Diminiculture of Thessaly at the Institute for Classical and Provincial Roman Archeology at the University of Innsbruck . A year later, Otto took over the management of the Magna Graecia Research Center at Innsbruck University as an associate professor . In 2003 she retired, but is still assigned to the Institute of Archeology as head of research projects.

In 1995 Otto became head of the excavations of the Demeter sanctuary in Herakleia ( Policoro ). When a major exhibition in Italy, I Greci in Occidente , was held in 1996 on the relationships between the ancient Greeks and oriental cultures, they organized a thematically appropriate exhibition with finds from the Demeter sanctuary of Herakleia at the University of Innsbruck. The city of Policoro made Otto an honorary citizen on September 19, 2009 because of her significant achievements in the research of ancient Herakleia .

Fonts

• Geometric ornaments on Anatolian ceramics. Symmetries of the earliest forms of jewelry in the Middle East and in the Aegean (= ceramic research . Volume 1). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1976.
• Editor with Friedrich Krinzinger and Elisabeth Walde : Research and Finds. Festschrift Bernhard Neutsch (= Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies. Volume 21). Publishing house of the Institute for Linguistics of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1980, ISBN 3-85124-074-X .
• Drawings in: Eva Jantzen : Homer. The Odyssey (= cultural history of the ancient world . Special issue). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-8053-0531-1 .
• Editor with Dieter Metzler and Christof Müller-Wirth: Antidoron. Festschrift for Jürgen Thimme on his 65th birthday on September 26, 1982. Müller, Karlsruhe 1983, ISBN 3-7880-9676-4 .
• The decorated ceramics of the Sesklo and diminiculture of Thessaly (= ceramic research . Volume 6). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1985, ISBN 3-8053-0776-4 .
• Editor with Friedrich Ehrl: Echo. Contributions to the archeology of the Mediterranean and Alpine regions. Dedicated to Johannes B. Trentini on the occasion of his 80th birthday by his friends and admirers (= Innsbruck contributions to cultural studies. Volume 27). Publishing house of the Institute for Linguistics of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1990, ISBN 3-85124-146-0 .
• Editor: Herakleia in Lucania and the source sanctuary of Demeter. I Greci in Occidente (= publications of the University of Innsbruck. Volume 220). Athesia-Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1996, ISBN 3-90124-934-6 .
• King Minos and his people. Life in old Crete. Artemis and Winkler, Düsseldorf and Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-7608-1113-2 (new edition 2000, ISBN 3-7608-1113-2 ).
• Il santuario di Demetra a Policoro. Gli spazi del culto. Le divinità. I rituali. Scorpione, Taranto 2007, ISBN 978-88-8099-179-3 .

Web links

• Portrait on the website of the Institute for Archeologies at the University of Innsbruck