Dela von Boeselager

Adelheid Theresia Antonia Michaela Lidwina Freiin von Boeselager (born December 17, 1942 in Bonn ) is a German archaeologist , art historian and author.

Life

Origin and education

Dela, whose full name is Adelheid Theresia Antonia Michaela Lidwina Freiin von Boeselager, is the second child of the married couple Sophie Freifrau von Boeselager , née Countess Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht (1913–2014), and Hermann-Josef Freiherr von Boeselager (1919–1963) was born. She traveled to New York on a scholarship and studied Classical Archeology and Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . While studying in New York, she met Csilla von Fényes in 1966 . She completed her studies in New York as a Master of Arts (MA), returned to Europe and continued her studies at the University of Basel . The close friendship that she had with Csilla von Fényes was further strengthened when Csilla married her cousin Wolfhard von Boeselager in 1973 . In 1977 Dela von Boeselager was in Basel with Karl Schefold with a doctoral thesis on antique mosaics in Sicily. Hellenism and Roman Empire for Dr. phil. PhD .

Profession and Charity

She then worked as a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome . In 1981 she wrote the exhibition catalog 3000 Years of Glass Art. From Antiquity to Art Nouveau for the Kunstmuseum Luzern and in 1983 she published her doctoral thesis from 1977 at the publisher Giorgio Bretschneider Editore in Rome. She then worked at the Roman-Germanic Museum of the City of Cologne and the High Cathedral in Cologne and published relevant monographs and treatises in the Bonner Jahrbuch , the Kölner Domblatt , Gnomon and the Kölner Jahrbuch für Pre- und Frühgeschichte .

The 420-page monograph Roman Glasses from Graves on Luxemburger Strasse in Cologne , which appeared in the Cologne Yearbook in 2012 , was published in 2013 by Gebr. Mann Verlag as a special edition in Berlin. In 2015 she wrote a treatise on the treasure find with 9000 Turnosgroschen from the Boeselager Hof .

In February 1988 she accompanied Csilla von Boeselager to Budapest when she handed over one of her first aid transports to Pastor Imre Kozma in Budapest-Zugliget. Dela von Boeselager followed Csilla's active commitment during the political change in Budapest in 1989 and the establishment of the Hungarian Order of Malta (Magyar Máltai Szeretet Szolgálat - MMSZ) with great sympathy. After finishing her professional life, she increasingly joined the Csilla von Boeselager Stiftung Osteuropa e. V. , which has continued since Csilla's death in February 1994.

Publications

• 3000 years of glass art. From antiquity to art nouveau. Exhibition in the Kunstmuseum Luzern , July 19 - September 13, 1981 . Lucerne Art Museum, Lucerne 1981.
• Ancient mosaics in Sicily. Hellenism and Roman Imperial Era, 3rd century BC - 3rd century AD (= Archeologica ). ( Inaugural dissertation , University of Basel, 1977). Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, Roma 1983. ISBN 88-85007-96-1 . doi : 10.2307 / 300704
• The mosaic find on the south tower of Cologne Cathedral . In: Bonner Jahrbücher , Volume 183 (1983), pp. 385-428.
• On the restoration history of Cologne mosaics. New observations . Museums of the City of Cologne, 1986.
• The gladiator mosaic in Cologne and its restoration in the 19th century . In: Kölner Jahrbuch für Vor und Frühgeschichte , 20 (1987), pp. 111–128.
• Finds and representations of Roman writing utensils cases. On the interpretation of an additive in Cologne graves . In: Kölner Jahrbuch für Pre- und Frühgeschichte , Volume 22 (1989), pp. 221–240.
• Dating the glasses from two graves on Luxemburger Strasse in Cologne . In: Cologne yearbook for prehistory and early history . → as a special print : Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1989.
• Inventory of the paraments in the High Cathedral in Cologne . In: Kölner Domblatt , Volume 55 (1990), pp. 267-273.
• For votive offerings to the "Jewelry Madonna" in Cologne Cathedral . In: Kölner Domblatt , Volume 56 (1991), pp. 295-301.
• Peter Heinrich von Blanckenhagen . In: Gnomon , Vol. 64 (1992), pp. 283-285.
• The combination of rich cremation graves in Cologne . In: Manuela Struck (Ed.): Roman times graves as sources on religion, population structure and social history. International conference from 18. – 20. February 1991 at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . University of Mainz, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-928957-02-3 , p. 283ff.
• with Leonie Becks: The treasure chamber of Cologne Cathedral . Masterpieces of the Cologne Cathedral (= Masterpieces of the Cologne Cathedral , Volume 6). Cologne Cathedral Publishing House, Cologne 2000, ISBN 978-3-922442-41-7 .
• Capella Clementina. Elector Clemens August and the coronation of Emperor Charles VII (= Studies on Cologne Cathedral , Volume 8). Cologne Cathedral Publishing House, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3922442370 .
• Elector Clemens August's votive robes for the Telgter Madonna . In: Kölner Domblatt , Volume 70 (2005), pp. 181-200.
• A portrait of Archbishop Clemens August Droste zu Vischering . In: Kölner Domblatt , Volume 71 (2006), pp. 133–150.
• For anointing and coronation in the liturgy of the Ordo . In: The Kaisermacher - essay volume. Frankfurt am Main and the Golden Bull 1356–1806 . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-7973-1012-9 , pp. 338-345.
• The Manderscheider regalia in Cologne Cathedral . In: Kölner Domblatt , Volume 72 (2007), pp. 213-238.
• with Leonie Becks: The processional sky of Cologne Cathedral and its restoration . In: Kölner Domblatt , Volume 74 (2009), pp. 276–281.
• Roman jars from graves on Luxemburger Strasse in Cologne. Typology, chronology, grave contexts . In: Kölner Jahrbuch für Pre- und Frühgeschichte , Volume 45 (2012), pp. 7–526 → as a special edition : Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3786126812 .
• The treasure trove from the Boeselagerhof and its legendary tradition . In: The Turnosgroschen from the coin treasure of the Boeselagerhof Bonn (= Bonn numismatic studies, Volume 2). Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-941612-08-2 , pp. 79-92 ( table of contents ).

Web links

• Works by and about Dela von Boeselager at Open Library
• Dr. Dela von Boeselager at Osteuropahilfe eV
• Publications in the North Rhine-Westphalian Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sophie von Boeselager turns 100
2. ↑ 9,000 coins buried on the Rhine - October 3, 2015
3. ^ Csilla von Boeselager Stiftung Osteuropa e. V.