Carola Reinsberg

Carola Reinsberg in the European Culture Park Bliesbruck-Reinheim in summer 2010

Carola Reinsberg (* 1949 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Carola Reinsberg studied Classical Archeology, Classical Philology and Ancient History at the University of Bonn and the University of Freiburg . In 1977 she was in Bonn with a thesis on studies of Hellenistic Toreutics . Doctorate the ancient plaster casts from Memphis . Before that, she worked as an assistant on the Samos excavation of the German Archaeological Institute . After completing her doctorate, she was able to travel to the Mediterranean countries with the help of the German Archaeological Institute's travel grant . Then Reinsberg became a research assistant on the research projectAntique sarcophagus reliefs from the German Research Foundation , located at the Archaeological Institute at the University of Marburg . Then Reinsberg became a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Frankfurt . There he also completed his habilitation in 1993, the subject of the habilitation thesis was Vita Romana . Substitute professorships led her to the University of Munich and the University of Mainz . In 1994, she was offered the chair for Classical Archeology at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken , where Reinsberg taught from March 1995 to August 2014 and was then appointed senior professor. At the same time she was the director of the local antique collection and the cast collection of Greek and Roman sculptures .

Reinsberg's main research areas are Greek and Roman sculpture, sepulchral art , depictions of bourgeois life, the self-portrayal of urban elites in Athens and Rome , portraits of ancient rulers, gender studies , iconography , the history of style and the reception of antiquity. Reinsberg is known to a broader public primarily through her book Marriage, Hetarianism and Boy Love in Ancient Greece . Together with Peter Robert Franke and Andreas Furtwängler , she publishes the series Saarbrücker Studies on Archeology and Ancient History , with Peter Funke , Hans-Joachim Gehrke and Gustav Adolf Lehmann the series Sources and Research on the Ancient World .

Fonts

• Studies on Hellenistic Toreutics. The ancient plaster casts from Memphis . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1980, ISBN 3-8067-8038-2 , ( Hildesheimer Egyptological contributions 9).
• Marriage, Hetarianism, and Boyfriendliness in Ancient Greece . CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33911-5 , ( Beck's archaeological library ), table of contents (PDF; 63 kB)
• Vita Romana . Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7861-2480-1 , ( The ancient sarcophagus reliefs, vol. 1: The sarcophagi with depictions of human life, part 3).

Web links

• Literature by and about Carola Reinsberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page at Saarland University