Johanna Fabricius

Johanna Fabricius (born December 29, 1962 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) is a German classical archaeologist .

From 1982 to 1992 Johanna Fabricius studied Classical Archeology , Latin Philology and Provincial Roman Archeology at the University of Munich and the University of Bonn . In 1990 she obtained her master's degree in Munich, where she also received her doctorate in 1992 with her dissertation The Hellenistic funeral reliefs. Grave representation and moral concepts in eastern Greek cities with Paul Zanker . In the same year a postdoctoral scholarship followed at the graduate college Formation and Self-Presentation of Urban Elites in the Roman Empire of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Cologne ; Subsequently, she traveled to the Mediterranean region until 1993 with a travel grant . This was followed in 1994/95 by a scientific traineeship at the antiquities collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe . Since 1995 Fabricius has been a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Göttingen . From 2001 to 2003 she spent a research stay at the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute with a research grant from the German Research Foundation . Fabricius completed his habilitation in Göttingen in 2004 and then worked there until 2006 as a senior assistant at the Archaeological Institute. In October 2006 she was appointed to the Free University of Berlin and succeeded Adolf Borbein as professor for classical archeology.

Fabricius is particularly dedicated to the archeology of Greek necropolises of the Classical and Hellenistic periods , the cultural and mental history of Hellenistic cities, Greek and Roman sculpture, the history of the body, gender studies , linguistics and the visual sciences. In 2007 she was awarded Soma / corpus for her unpublished habilitation thesis . Body image and body concepts in Greek and Roman culture awarded the Bruno Snell Prize . She is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Fonts

• The Hellenistic funeral reliefs. Grave representation and moral concepts in eastern Greek cities (= studies of the ancient city. Vol. 3). Pfeil, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-931516-51-2 .
• with Michael Maaß : Ancient cultures: Orient, Egypt, Greece, Etruria, Rome and Byzantium. Guide through the antique collections of the Baden State Museum. Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe 1995, ISBN 3-923132-40-9 .

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 22nd edition. tape 1 . KG Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23629-7 , p. 906 .

Web links

• Johanna Fabricius on the website of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the Free University of Berlin