Helga Bumke

Helga Bumke (born September 16, 1966 in Berlin ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Helga Bumke studied classical archeology, art history and ancient history at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg . In 1993 she passed the master's examination at the Free University of Berlin, in 1997 she received her doctorate there with the thesis Statuary Groups in Early Greek Art . Since 1994 she has been working on the Didyma excavation of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), and from 1998 to 2000 she was a DAI research fellow. In 2000 Bumke became a research assistant at the University of Bonn . She stayed in Athens in 2006 as part of a research grant from the German Research Foundation . A year later she completed her habilitation in Bonn with the work Artemis Shrines in Western Asia Minor. An archaeological investigation into the religious character of a Greek deity in the Ionian "colonization area" . In 2008 she became head of the research project “Cults in Cult”, which is funded by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . From 2010 to 2011 she was Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Bochum , and since autumn 2011 she has been Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Halle . She has been a corresponding member of the DAI since 2009. On February 10, 2017, she was elected a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Bumke is primarily concerned with Greek sanctuaries and cults, Greek iconography and sculpture, votives as a cultural-historical phenomenon as well as cities in Asia Minor , in particular Didyma , in which cult research is combined with urban research.

Fonts

• Statuary Groups in Early Greek Art . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-018179-7 ( Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute . Supplementary Issue 32).

Web links

• Employee site at the University of Halle