Katja Sporn

Katja Sporn (* 1970 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German classical archaeologist .

After graduating from the Kronberg-Gymnasium in Aschaffenburg, Sporn studied classical archeology, philosophy and ancient history in Heidelberg , Athens and London from 1989 to 1997 . In 1998 she was in Heidelberg Tonio Holscher with the work sanctuaries and cults of Crete in classical and Hellenistic times his doctorate . In 1998/99 she received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute .

From 2000 to 2002 Sporn was a consultant at the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute , from 2002 to 2007 assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne . From April 2007, Sporn was academic advisor and curator of the Archaeological Collection of the University of Freiburg , where she started her work Das Bild am Grab. Grave representation and social values in extra-Attic grave reliefs from the 5th and 4th centuries BC Chr. Also habilitated was. Since October 1, 2010, she has been Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Salzburg . In January 2013 she was elected as the successor to Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier as director of the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute and took up her post in spring 2014. She is currently an honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Sporn is particularly concerned with the sanctuaries and necropolises of ancient Greece . It is part of several research projects in Greece, including the publication of the finds from the sanctuary of Aphrodite and Hermes in Kato Symi Viannou on Crete and the Demeter sanctuary in Oaxos . She directs the excavations in the sanctuary of Kalapodi .

Fonts

Shrines and cults in Crete in Classical and Hellenistic times . Verlag Archeology and History, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-935289-01-4 .
as editor: Europe's mirror. The antique collection in the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum Aachen . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-89500-507-X .
as editor: Greek burial precincts of the classical period. Norms and Regionalisms, Files of the Athens International Colloquium, 20.-21. November 2009 (= Athenaia. Volume 6). Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-2034-9 .

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SURNAME	Spur, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aschaffenburg