Eva Margareta Steinby

Eva Margareta Steinby , usually just called Margareta Steinby , (born November 21, 1938 in Vyborg ) is a Finnish classical archaeologist .

Steinby received his doctorate from the University of Helsinki in 1976 , but has been researching in Rome since 1963 . From 1973 to 1977 she was initially an assistant at the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae in Villa Lante on the Gianicolo in Rome, which she headed as director from 1979 to 1982 and 1992 to 1994. From 1973 she also taught at the University of Helsinki. In 1994 she succeeded Sheppard Frere as Professor of the Archeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford University . She held the position until her retirement in 2004. With her professorship, she also became a Fellow at All Souls College in Oxford , to which she has been an Emeritus Fellow since 2004 .

Steinby's academic interest is primarily in archaeological questions about the history of Rome, its topography and architecture. Her work on brick stamps in Rome and its surroundings from the Roman Republic to the 3rd century AD, in which she achieved important results on the chronology of Roman brick structures, is fundamental . As an extremely important compendium on the topography of ancient Rome, it published the six-volume Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae between 1993 and 2000 . Volume 4 of the associated supplements, Res bene gestae. Ricerche di storia urbana su Roma antica in onore di Eva Margareta Steinby , was offered to her as a commemorative publication.

Memberships and honors

• Gold medal for Benemeriti Culturali of the Republic of Italy 1983
• Member of the Societas Scientiarum Fennica , the oldest Finnish science academy, 1983
• Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute in 1984
• Winner of the Finnish Order of the White Rose in 1991
• Member of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia 1993–95 (corresponding member from 1982)
• Member of the Society of Antiquaries of London 1997
• Honorary Member of the Archaeological Institute of America 2000
• Member of the Academy of Finland in 2000

Fonts (selection)

• I bolli laterizi degli antiquari del Foro e del Palatino. Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Rome 1974.
• La cronologia delle figlinae doliari urbane dalla fine dell'età repubblicana fino all'inizio del iii sec.Spoleto 1974.
• Lateres signati Ostienses. Volumes 1 and 2. Bardi, Rome 1977/78.
• Editor: Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. Six volumes. Edizioni Quasar, Rome 1993-2000.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Margareta Steinby in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eva Margareta Steinby, FSA Authorized Biography - Debrett's People of Today
• Biography (swedish)
• All Souls College