Eleni-Alexandra Amburger

Eleni-Alexandra Amburger (* as Eleni Alexandra Elsa Sfinis January 15, 1924 in Berlin ; † January 19, 2017 in Gießen ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Eleni Amburger is the daughter of the Royal Greek General Doctor of the Navy, Georges Sfinis . She studied classical archeology in Berlin in the 1940s , her first teacher was Gerhart Rodenwaldt . She received her doctorate in May 1949 in Berlin with her work Athene and Herakles in the art of antiquity . After completing her doctorate, she worked as an "unskilled worker" at the Berlin headquarters of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) headed by Carl Weickert , at times she shared the position with Christiane Grunwald . From 1955 to 1957 she acted as treasurer of the Archaeological Society in Berlin . She had been married to the Eastern European historian Erik Amburger since 1947, and she often took part in his research. In 1950 the couple had a daughter. 2009 gave Amburger the antiquities collection casting the torso of a squatting Pan - statue and one of the few pieces in the field of sculpture of the collection. Amburger was a corresponding member of the DAI.

literature

• Annual reports in the yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute 66–69 (1952–1955)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Erik Amburger: Germans in the state, economy and society of Russia: the Amburger family in St. Petersburg, 1770-1920 . O. Harrassowitz, 1986, ISBN 978-3-447-02571-3 ( google.de [accessed April 18, 2018]).
2. ↑ Annual reports 2009 (pdf); Annual report 2014 (pdf)
3. ↑ Membership page on the DAI website ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.