Cornelia Römer
Cornelia Eva Römer (born October 13, 1953 in Wuppertal ) is a German papyrologist .
Life
After graduating from the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium in Wuppertal in 1972, Cornelia Römer studied classical philology , Russian and art history at the Universities of Cologne and Florence from 1972 to 1979 . In 1979 she received her doctorate in Cologne under Reinhold Merkelbach with the work Nine Christian Texts from the Papyrus Collection of the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne . Here she then worked as an assistant and scholarship holder. Research stays in Cairo , Ann Arbor and Sydney followed . From 1987 to 2000 she was custodian of the papyrus collection at the University of Cologne. In 1994 she completed her habilitation in Classical Philology in Cologne, and in 1999 she was appointed associate professor. From 2000 to 2005 she was a professor of Papyrology at University College in London . From 2005 to 2009 she was director of the papyrus collection and the papyrus museum of the Austrian National Library in Vienna and regularly held lectures at the University of Vienna , which in 2006 made her an honorary professor for papyrology. Since 2010 she has been doing research as a freelancer at the Cairo department of the German Archaeological Institute . Since January 2013, it is long-term lecturer of the DAAD office Cairo, at the Ain Shams University .
Fonts (selection)
- Nine Christian texts from the papyrus collection of the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne (= Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Hrsg.): Special series Papyrologica coloniensia. Volume 7; Kölner papyri. Volume 4). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1979, ISBN 3-531-09915-9 ; ibid 1982, OCLC 630675515 (Cologne, Univ., Philos. Fac., Diss. A, 1979).
- Mani's early mission trips based on the Cologne manibiography. Critical commentary and explanations on p. 121 - p. 192 of the Cologne Mani Codex (= treatises of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Volume 24). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 978-3-663-05379-8 , urn : nbn: de: 1111-201302172038 .
Web links
- Employee email at the DAI Cairo
- Römer among DAAD lecturers in Egypt ( Memento from July 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
See also
Josef Karabacek (1899–1904, director of the court library ) | Karl Wessely (1904–1922, curator “extra statum” ) | Theodor Seif (1923–1930, Oriental Department ) | Hans Gerstinger (1923–1936, until 1931 Greek department , then overall management ) | Walter Till (1936–1942 and 1948–1951) | Franz Unterkircher (1951–1956, official director, actually director of the manuscript collection ) | Herbert Hunger (1956–1962) | Helene Loebenstein (1962–1984) | Hermann Harrauer (1984-2005) | Cornelia Römer (2005–2009) | Bernhard Palme (since 2009)
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| SURNAME | Romans, Cornelia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Römer, Cornelia E .; Römer, Cornelia Eva (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German papyrologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |