Elisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum

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Elisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum , née Rosenbaum, (born September 6, 1911 in Koblenz , † October 6, 1992 in Princeton, New Jersey ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Life

After graduating from the Ursuline School in Cologne in 1939, Rosenbaum studied Classical Archeology, Classical Philology and Art History at the University of Cologne . In 1941 she moved to the University of Vienna and in 1942 went to the University of Budapest on a scholarship . There she studied art history with Friedrich Gerke , Byzantine studies with Gyula Moravcsik and ancient history with Andreas Alföldi . In 1944 she received her doctorate at the University of Berlin with the dissertation Portraits on Pannonian grave steles under Friedrich Gerke and Gerhart Rodenwaldt .

From 1946 to 1951 she worked again for Friedrich Gerke as an assistant at the Institute for Art History at the newly founded University of Mainz . 1950–1951 she was a scholarship holder in London, where she received her doctorate again in 1952 at the Courtauld Institute with a dissertation Late Antique Models for Carolingian Art in art history. In London she also wrote a book on the Roman portrait sculpture of Cyrenaica . From 1963 to 1966 she worked for the Turkish Historical Society in Ankara, where she wrote the corpus of Roman and early Byzantine portraits from Turkey together with Jale İnan , a fellow student from her time in Berlin. There she also began research in ancient cities in Cilicia , where she carried out an excavation in Anamur from 1965 to 1970 . Since 1966 she taught at the University of Toronto , from 1973 to 1984 as a professor. In 1967 she married the ancient historian Andreas Alföldi, who worked in Princeton, with whom she developed a lively academic collaboration.

Her main areas of research were the ancient portrait, Roman Cilicia and Roman mosaics. With Andreas Alföldi she worked on the corpus of accountants . She became known to a wider public through her edition of De re coquinaria des Apicius, the oldest surviving Roman cookbook.

Fonts

  • A catalog of Cyrenaican portrait sculpture . London 1960.
  • with Jale İnan: Roman and Early Byzantine portrait sculpture in Asia Minor . London 1966.
  • with Gerhard Huber, Somay Onurkan: A survey of coastal cities in Western Cilicia. Preliminary report . Ankara 1967.
  • with Katerina Wilczynski as illustrator "The Roman Cookery Book" London 1958; german The cookbook of the Romans. Recipes from the "culinary art" of Apicius . Zurich and Munich 1970, ISBN 3-538-07094-6 .
  • with Andreas Alföldi: Die Kontorniat-Medaillons . 2 volumes, Berlin 1976 and 1990. ISBN 3-11-003484-0 , ISBN 3-11-011905-6
  • with Jale İnan: Roman and early Byzantine portrait sculpture from Turkey. New finds . Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0391-2 .
  • The necropolis of Adrassus (Balabolu) in Rough Cilicia (Isauria) , Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7001-0369-7
  • with John Bryan Ward-Perkins : Justinianic mosaic pavements in Cyrenaican churches , Rome 1980.

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SURNAME Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenbaum, Elisabeth (maiden name); Alföldi, Erzsébet (Hungarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1992
Place of death Princeton, New Jersey