Cornelia Ewigleben

Cornelia Ewigleben (2014)

Cornelia Ewigleben (* 1954 in Bispingen ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

From 1976 Cornelia Ewigleben studied Classical Archeology and History at the Universities of Trier and Oxford. In her doctoral thesis on Thracian toreutics , she dealt with the cultural transfer between ancient Greece and today's Bulgaria in the 5th and 4th centuries BC on the basis of archaeological finds.

After completing her studies, she completed an academic traineeship at the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg from 1988 to 1990 . There she headed the antiques department until the end of 1999. In 2000 she moved to the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer as director and was director of the Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart from 2005 until her retirement in March 2020 .

In the course of its activities, Ewigleben has been responsible for a large number of exhibitions. These include: Gladiators and Caesars - The power of entertainment in ancient Rome (1999/2000), Hatshepsut - Queen of Egypt (2002), Europe's Jews in the Middle Ages (2004/5), The Kingdom of Württemberg (2006/7), Egyptian mummies ( 2008/9), Treasures from Ancient Syria (2009/10), The World of the Celts (2011/12), In the Splendor of the Tsars. Württemberg, the Romanows and Europe (2013/14), The Swabians. Between myth and brand (2016/17). In addition, she is involved in a large number of committees, including chair of the museum commission and the general advisory board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation , Berlin, and the advisory board of the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation . She also holds courses and lectures on various aspects of museum work.

She is married to the director of the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe, the classical archaeologist Eckart Köhne , who was her successor as museum director in Speyer from 2011 to 2014.

Publications (selection)

• Toreutic from Thrace. Studies of the precious metal vessels of the fifth and fourth centuries BC From Bulgaria. Dissertation University of Trier 1987 (published only as microfiche).

Web links

• Press release University of Tübingen: Cornelia Ewigleben has been made honorary senator

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bulletin of the Deutsches Museumsbund eV , Edition 3/2003, p. 3 ( PDF; 337 kB ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and Archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ). 
2. ↑ Now the married couple run both state museums.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Schwäbisches Tagblatt online, June 28, 2014, accessed on October 26, 2015.