Gisela Schneider-Herrmann

Gisela Schneider-Herrmann (born September 1, 1893 in Berlin ; † 1992 ) was a German-Dutch classical archaeologist .

From 1916 to 1920 she studied philology, art history and archeology. Since 1920 she lived with her husband, the German-Jewish trader for tropical fruits Georg Schneider, in the Netherlands . In the early 1930s they spent a few years in Hamburg , where Gisela Schneider-Herrmann continued her studies. From 1933 they lived in Rotterdam and Gisela studied at times classical archeology with Constant Willem Lunsingh Scheurleer (1881-1941) at the University of Leiden . In 1939 she and her husband became Dutch citizens and lived in The Hague . From 1942 to 1945 she lived in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands , her husband stayed in India.

She mainly dealt scientifically with the Lower Italian vase painting . She also put together a collection of ancient works of art, which she published in 1975 and donated to the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden in 1992 , where it had already been hidden during the war.

In the 1950s she published on Stefan George and Hölderlin in the vicinity of the Castrum Peregrini .

Publications (selection)

• Stefan George in his poetry . Origo, Zurich 1957.
• Holderlin's 'Peace Celebration' and the Greek Genius . An interpretation. Origo, Zurich 1959.
• Hölderlin's ode 'Poet Profession'. Your religious imprint . Origo, Zurich 1960.
• A Dutch study collection of ancient art . (= Bulletin antieke beschaving Supplement 1). Leiden 1975.
• Apulian red-figured paterae with flat or knobbed handles . (= Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London Supplementary papers 34). Institute of Classical Studies, London 1977, ISBN 0-900587-36-9 .
• Red-figured Lucanian and Apulian nestorides and their ancestors . Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum 1980.
• The Samnites of the fourth century BC as depicted on Campanian vases and in other sources . (= Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London Supplementary papers 61). Institute of Classical Studies, London 1996, ISBN 0-900587-64-4 .

literature

• Arthur D. Trendall : Gisela Schneider-Herrmann 1893–1992 . In: BABesch 67, 1992, pp. V – X (with picture and list of scriptures).
• Clariet Boeye: Een bijzondere verzameling oudheden ondergedoken aan het Rapenburg? In: Hart van de stadt krant 128, 2010, pp. 10–11 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Gisela Schneider-Herrmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Schneider-Herrmann collection in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (with picture)