Isabelle Raubitschek

Isabelle Raubitschek (* as Isabelle Kelly on September 2, 1914 in Boston ; † October 14, 1988 ) was an American classical archaeologist .

After completing her school education at the Girl's Latin School in Boston, Isabelle Raubitschek went to Barnard College in New York City with the help of a Pulitzer scholarship , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1935 with Margarete Bieber , with whom she then became a lifelong friend . This was followed by graduate studies with William Bell Dinsmoor in the Department of Art and Archeology at Columbia University . In 1936 she went to study at the Sorbonne in Paris , where she studied classical archeology with Charles Picard , as well as medieval architecture with Marcel Aubert . In 1937/38 she was a member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens .

In Athens she met Anton Raubitschek , whom she married in Princeton in 1941 and with whom she often worked scientifically. In 1943 Raubitschek obtained her doctorate with the work Ionic Treatment of Some Early Doric Capitals . While Anton Raubitschek was employed at Yale University in New Haven , the couple had three children, and a fourth was born while he was working in Princeton. Isabelle Raubitschek became the head of the Latin department of Miss Fine's School in Princeton in 1952 . In 1963 she moved to San Francisco State University as head of the archaeological departments , and in 1966 she became a lecturer at the Art Department of Stanford University . In 1974 he was appointed Associate Professor there . She also became a curator at the Leland Stanford Museum , where she published the Hearst Hillsborough vases, among other things.

Between 1971 and 1975 Raubitschek traveled to Greece several times and found a further field of activity in the Isthmia excavation near Corinth , led by Oscar Broneer , to whom she and his wife had been on friendly terms since their stay in Greece in the 1930s, and then by Elizabeth Gebhard . She was entrusted with the processing of the metal objects, apart from the coins and weapons, of the Poseidon sanctuary. In 1984 she stayed longer in Corinth to study. In 1988 she was able to finish the work on the metal objects, which included sculptures , vases, tools, jewelry and horse harness, and died a little later. The work was only published posthumously in 1998. Anton Raubitschek endowed the Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics at Stanford University in his will .

Fonts (selection)

• Ionicizing-Doric Architecture. A Stylistic Study of Greek Doric Architecture of the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BC Dissertation University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1943.
• The Hearst Hillsborough vases. Zabern, Mainz 1969.
• Isthmia. Volume 7: The Metal Objects (1952-1989). American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton (NJ) 1998.

Web links

• Isabelle Raubitschek on Women in Old Word Archeology (English)
• P. Terrence Hopman: Isabelle Kelly Raubitschek 1914–1988