Donna C. Kurtz

Donna Carol Kurtz (born December 6, 1943 in Cincinnati ) is an American classical archaeologist who made important contributions to the research of ancient Greek vases .

Donna C. Kurtz studied classical archeology at the University of Cincinnati , where she graduated with a bachelor's degree. She then moved to Yale University as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar , where she did her Masters . For promotion in 1968, she went as owner of a Marshall Scholarship to the Somerville College of the University of Oxford . The dissertation on The iconography of the Athenian white-ground lekythos was supervised by Martin Robertson . It became the basis of her later monograph Athenian white lekythoi. Patterns and painters , a standard work on the Attic - white-ground lekythoi .

After the death of John D. Beazley it was taken over by Kurtz, who was given to the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford to organize the estate. A position of Beazley Archivist or Keeper of the Archive was created at the Faculty of Classics . From this work grew the Beazley Archive , which today has become one of the most important institutions in the world in the field of classical archeology. At first the Beazley Archive was headed by John Boardman , then Kurtz headed it as director, who had meanwhile received a professorship at Oxford. In 2011 she was succeeded by Peter Stewart as director . In 1979 Kurtz began to set up a computerized database for the Beazley Archive, the Classical Art Research Center (CARC), with now more than 100,000 entries, which is managed by Thomas Mannack in succession to Kurtz . It is considered to be the oldest scientific database that is freely accessible on the Internet. In 2000 she initiated the CLAROS network. Kurtz supervised more than 40 doctorates. After retiring in 2011, she became an Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College , Oxford. In various projects she is dedicated to the electronic linking of data sets from various museums and institutions at Oxford University as Linked Open Data . She has headed the Oxford Cultural Heritage Program since 2013 .

Initially, Kurtz's research focused on research into ancient ceramics, especially Attic red-figure and white-ground vase painting. Building on this, she also dealt with Greek funeral customs. Building on Beazley's work, she published a monograph on the Berlin painter . Since 1975 she has published the Kerameus series together with John Boardman, Herbert A. Cahn and Erika Simon . Since the 2000s at the latest, her research has increasingly focused on the reception of ancient art, especially in Oxford. Through her work on the databases of the Beazley Archive, Kurtz also devoted herself to archaeo-informatics , especially the collection and linking of data.

Fonts

• with John Boardman : Greek Burial Customs. Thames & Hudson, London 1971.
  • German: Thanatos. Death and the afterlife with the Greeks. (= Cultural History of the Ancient World , Volume 23), Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1985, ISBN 3-8053-0539-7 .
• Athenian white lekythoi. Patterns and painters. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1975.
• Editor with Brian Sparkes: The Eye of Greece: studies in the art of Athens. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1982.
• The Berlin Painter. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1983.
• Editor: Beazley and Oxford. Lectures delivered at Wolfson College, Oxford on June 28, 1985 (= Oxford University Committee for Archeology , Volume 10). Oxford University Committee for Archeology, Oxford 1985, ISBN 0-947816-10-0 .
• Editor: Bernard Ashmole 1894–1988. To Autobiography. Oxbow Books, Oxford 1994, ISBN 0892363185 .
• The reception of classical art in Britain. An Oxford story of plaster casts from the antique. Beazley Archive and Archaeopress, Oxford 2000.
• Reception of classical art. An introduction. (= Studies in classical archeology , Volume 3) Beazley Archive and Archaeopress, Oxford 2004.
• Editor with Hans-Caspar Meyer and David Saunders: Essays in classical archeology for Eleni Hatzivassiliou (1977–2007). Archaeopress, Oxford 2008, ISBN 9781407302843 .

Web links

• Biographical summary on the website of the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University (identical to the Oxford e-Research Center )
• Biographical summary on Wolfson College, Oxford University website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Home. Retrieved March 4, 2020 . 
2. ↑ CLAROS | CIDOC CRM. Retrieved March 4, 2020 . 
3. ↑ About | The Cultural Heritage Program. November 23, 2014, accessed March 4, 2020 .