Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Cornelia Isler-Kerényi (born 1942 in Budapest ) is a Swiss classical archaeologist .

Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, daughter of the Hungarian classical philologist and religious scholar Karl Kerényi , grew up in Italian-speaking Switzerland . She studied Classical Archeology at the Universities of Munich and Zurich . In Zurich she was working on Nike. The type of running wing woman in archaic times received her doctorate in 1967 .

From 1971 to 1974 she took part in the excavations in Ietas on Monte Iato in Sicily, where she met her husband, the Swiss classical archaeologist Hans Peter Isler . They also excavated in Eretria and Samos . From 1985 Cornelia Isler-Kerényi worked as a lecturer at numerous universities in Switzerland and Italy - except at the Universities of Zurich and Neuchâtel , including the Universities of Urbino , the “L'Orientale” and “Federico II” in Naples and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.

In 2001 she was visiting professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, in 2006 at the University of Ferrara , and in 2009 at the University of La Sapienza in Rome. From 1997 to 1998 she was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , and in 2000 she became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . The University of Pécs awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2002 . From 1993 to 2007 Cornelia Isler-Kerényi was a member of the Swiss UNESCO Commission .

Isler-Kerényi's main research interests include Greek vase painting from the 6th and 5th centuries BC. BC, particularly with regard to iconographic questions and methodological concepts, the history of science of classical archeology and the history of collections.

Publications (selection)

• Nike. The type of the running wing woman in archaic times. Rentsch, Zurich 1969.
• Stamnoi. Cornèr Banca, Lugano 1977.
• Dionysus nella Grecia arcaica. Il contributo delle immagini. Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, Pisa 2001.
• Civilizing Violence. Satyrs on 6th-century Greek Vases. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004.
• L'arte greca. Jaca Book, Milan 2008 (German: Greece. Ancient art and architecture. Imhof, Petersberg 2008).
• Dionysus in Classical Athens. An understanding through images. Brill, Leiden 2015.

Web links

• Cornelia Isler-Kerényi. Membre correspondante de l'IEA de Nantes on the website of the Institut d'études avancées de Nantes (accessed on July 18, 2020)
• Curriculum Vitae on academia.edu (accessed on July 18, 2020)