Gisela Hellenkemper Salies

Gisela Hellenkemper Salies (born February 19, 1944 in Königshütte , † May 5, 1999 in Bonn ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Gisela Salies has been studying Classical Archeology, Ancient History and Latin at the University of Cologne since 1963 . During her studies she stayed in Athens for two years as a student of the German Academic Exchange Service , and later she was to undertake many trips through large parts of the Mediterranean and the neighboring areas. Her doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of investigations into the geometric structuring schemes of Roman mosaics took place in 1972 under her academic teacher Heinz Kähler . Salies then worked on the corpus of the Minoan and Mycenaean seals under the direction of Friedrich Matz the Younger , from 1976 she headed the scientific editing of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , since 1987 as head of the "Publications" department. In this function, she accompanied a large number of the museum's scientific publications as a lecturer, editor or author and, since 1987, has also been responsible for the photographic and graphic documentation, for example. The Bonn yearbooks , which Hellenkemper Salies oversaw for more than 20 years, were of particular importance . Under her aegis , books were created that met the highest scientific as well as editorial requirements and ensured the museum's outstanding international reputation. The organization of the exhibition The Wreck - The Ancient Ship Find of Mahdia (1994/95) was of particular importance . She was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and an honorary member of the Society of Antiquaries of London . For health reasons, she was no longer able to hold a visiting professorship at the École normal supérieure in Paris . Hellenkemper Salies died at the age of 55 after a long and serious illness. She was married to the archaeologist Hansgerd Hellenkemper .

Hellenkemper Salies was an internationally recognized specialist in Roman and Byzantine mosaics. Already in her dissertation she showed the mosaic research new ways, the work is fundamental to this day. The publication on the mosaics in the vestibule of St. Mark's Basilica appeared in five languages. She took part in excavations in Anemurion ( Cape Anamur ) and an expedition of the Tabula Imperii of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Cilicia , Pamphylia and Lycia .

Fonts

• The Nabataeans. Income from an exhibition in the Rhine. Landesmuseum Bonn , Rheinland-Verlag / Habelt, Cologne / Bonn 1981 (Art and Antiquity on the Rhine, No. 106) ISBN 3-7927-0563-X
• Money from China , Rheinland-Verlag / Habelt, Cologne / Bonn 1982 (Art and Antiquity on the Rhine, No. 108) ISBN 3-7927-0606-7
• In the beginning God created heaven and earth. The mosaics in the porch of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice , Herder, 1986 ISBN 3451206323
• The wreck. The antique ship find by Mahdia (ed.), Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1994 (catalogs of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, vol. 1) ISBN 3-7927-1442-6

literature

• Heinz Günter Horn : Gisela Hellenkemper Salies. An obituary . In: Bonner Jahrbücher, Volume 197, Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISSN  0938-9334 , pp. IX-XVI.
• Heinz Günter Horn: Obituary for Gisela Hellenkemper Salies . In: Antike Welt 31 (2000), pp. 207f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gisela Hellenkemper Salies in the catalog of the German National Library