Erika Simon

Erika Simon (born June 27, 1927 in Rheingönheim ; † February 15, 2019 in Würzburg ) was a German classical archaeologist . From 1964 until her retirement she held the chair for Classical Archeology at the University of Würzburg .

Live and act

Erika Simon, daughter of a horticultural architect, graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Aschaffenburg in 1947 . From 1947 to 1952 she studied Classical Archeology, Classical Philology and German Studies at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich . She passed the first and second state exams for teaching in 1951/1952. With Reinhard Herbig , she received her doctorate in 1952 in Heidelberg with a study on sacrificing gods . In 1952/53 she received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute for her dissertation . From 1953 to 1958 she was Roland Hampe's assistant at the University of Mainz , where she qualified as a professor in 1957 . In 1959 she completed her rehabilitation in Heidelberg . There she taught as an adjunct professor at the Archaeological Institute until 1963 . In 1964 she became full professor of classical archeology at the University of Würzburg and director of the antique collection of the Martin von Wagner Museum ; In 1994 she retired. Then they had several guest professorships, among others, in Aberdeen , Durban , Vienna, Australia, Tallahassee , Austin and Baltimore .

Your list of publications had almost 400 publications up to 2013. In her research, Simon dealt with the iconography of the Greeks and Romans, especially the gods, with Greek vases and image programs of Roman art (for example the Augustus statue of Prima Porta and the Ara Pacis ). Her research on Etruscology is also considered to be groundbreaking . She was instrumental in the development of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC).

Simon was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute , a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (since 1978), the Scientific Society at the University of Frankfurt am Main, the British Academy (since 2001), the American Philosophical Society (since 2002) and honorary member of numerous Institute (including the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies in London ) and honorary doctorates from the University of Thessaloniki and the University of Athens (2006).

For her services to science, Erika Simon has been honored with numerous awards, including the Golden Athos Cross of the Order of St. Mark of the Patriarchate of Alexandria , the Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize of the University of Münster, the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon , the medal Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Fonts

Monographs

• Sacrificing gods. Mann, Berlin 1953, (Dissertation University of Heidelberg March 25, 1952, 150 sheets, 4 [typesetting]). (2nd, revised edition. Röll, Dettelbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-89754-482-6 )
• The images of princes from Boscoreale. A contribution to Hellenistic wall painting (= German contributions to ancient studies. H. 7, ZDB -ID 525848-0 ). Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft Grimm, Baden-Baden 1954.
• The Portland Vase. Publishing house of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Mainz 1957, (Habilitation University Mainz, Philosophical Faculty 1957).
• The birth of Aphrodite. de Gruyter, Berlin 1959.
• The Augustus of Prima Porta (= Opus nobile. H. 13). Dorn, Bremen 1959.
• with Roland Hampe : Greek life in the mirror of art. von Zabern, Mainz 1959.
• with Roland Hampe: Greek legends in early Etruscan art. von Zabern, Mainz 1964.
• as editor and editor: Reinhard Herbig : Gods and Demons of the Etruscans. 2nd Edition. von Zabern, Mainz 1965.
• Ara Pacis Augustae (= Monumenta artis antiquae. Volume 1, ISSN  0933-582X ). Wasmuth, Tübingen 1967.
• The gods of the Greeks. Hirmer, Munich 1969.
• The ancient theater (= Heidelberg texts. Didactic series. H. 5). Kerle, Heidelberg 1972, (In English: The Ancient Theater (= University Paperbacks. 766). Translated by Catherine E. Vafopoulou-Richardson. Methuen, London et al. 1982, ISBN 0-416-32520-3 ).
• as editor: guide through the antiques department of the Martin von Wagner Museum at the University of Würzburg. von Zabern, Mainz 1975.
• The Greek vases. Hirmer, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7774-2760-8 .
• The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum. Greek, Etruscan, and Roman antiquities. von Zabern, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-8053-0625-3 .
• Festivals of Attica. An archaeological commentary. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI 1983, ISBN 0-299-09180-5 .
• The Constantinian ceiling paintings in Trier (= Trier Contributions to Antiquity. Volume 3, Cultural History of the Ancient World . Volume 34). von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1986, ISBN 3-8053-0903-1 .
• Augustus. Art and life in Rome at the turn of the ages. Hirmer, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7774-4220-8 .
• Eirene and Pax. Goddesses of Peace in Antiquity (= meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Volume 24, No. 3). Steiner, Wiesbaden / Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-515-05181-3 .
• Menander in Centuripe. Stuttgart (= meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Volume 25, No. 2). Steiner, Wiesbaden / Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-05429-4 .
• The gods of the Romans. Hirmer, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7774-5310-2 .
• Aias von Salamis as a mythical personality (= meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Volume 41, No. 1). Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08347-2 .
• Horses in myth and ancient art. Franz Philipp Rutzen, Ruhpolding et al. 2006, ISBN 3-938646-05-5 .
• Ara Pacis Augustae. The altar of the goddess of peace Pax Augusta in Rome (= Ponte fra le culture. 3, Rome ). Röll, Dettelbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-89754-378-2 .

Collected smaller writings

• Writings on Etruscan and Italian art and religion (= writings of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, humanities series. No. 11). Stuttgart, Steiner 1996, ISBN 3-515-06941-0 .
• Selected Writings.
  • Volume 1: Greek Art. von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2021-3 ;
  • Volume 2: Roman Art. von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2404-9 ;
  • Volume 3. Rutzen, Ruhpolding et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-938646-39-7 ;
  • Volume 4. von Zabern, Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06758-4 .
• Writings on art history. (= Writings of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Humanities Series. No. 17). Steiner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-515-08112-7 .

literature

• Angelika Geyer : Erika Simon †. In: Gnomon , Vol. 91, 2019, Issue 7, pp. 670-671.
• Tonio Hölscher : laudation for Professor Dr. phil. Erika Simon. In: Celebration for the award of the Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize. November 18, 1983. Society for the Promotion of the Westphalian Wilhelms University, Münster 1983, pp. 5-8.
• Tonio Hölscher: Antiquity as an open zone. Bridge builder: On the death of the archaeologist Erika Simon. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 20, 2019, No. 43, p. 14 ( online )
• Tonio Hölscher: Obituary. On the death of Erika Simon . In: Antike Welt , 2019, issue 3, p. 4.
• Tonio Hölscher: Erika Simon (June 27, 1927– February 15, 2019). In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences for the year 2019. Heidelberg 2020, pp. 202–206 ( online ).
• Johan Schloemann: Erika Simon died. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 25, 2019, p. 10 ( online ).
• Heide Froning , Tonio Hölscher, Harald Mielsch (eds.): Kotinos. Festschrift for Erika Simon. von Zabern, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-8053-1425-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Erika Simon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vita of Erika Simon on the website of the Chair of Classical Archeology at the University of Würzburg
• List of publications by Erika Simon (PDF; 8.6 MB)
• Erika Simon passed away . In: einBLICK - online magazine of the University of Würzburg, February 26, 2019

Remarks

1. ↑ Erika Simon's obituary notice . In: FAZ.NET February 23, 2019
2. ↑ Johan Schloemann: Erika Simon died . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 25, 2019, p. 10.
3. ↑ Member History: Erika Simon. American Philosophical Society , accessed January 27, 2019.