Lisa Hamburg

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Lisa Hamburg (born September 10, 1890 in Berlin , † 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Lisa Hamburg, the daughter of the Jewish doctor Joseph Hamburg (1853–1913) and Anna b. Meyer, attended the preschool class of the Royal Luisengymnasium in Berlin from 1896 to 1902 and (after a year of private lessons) from 1903 to 1906 the Auguste Viktoria School in Charlottenburg . After graduating, she studied history and classical philology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , with a particular focus on the Greek language. 1910 passed the exam Graeco - Latinum . In 1911 she moved to the University of Bonn , where her major shifted to philosophy and archeology. Her mentor was the professor of archeology Georg Loeschcke , who was appointed to Berlin in 1912. Lisa Hamburg returned to Berlin University for three semesters and then went to Halle (Saale) University in 1913 , where she studied with the philologists Georg Wissowa and Otto Kern and especially with the archaeologist Carl Robert . When the First World War broke out, she interrupted her studies for three semesters and moved to Berlin to live with her mother; the father had already died the previous year. In the spring of 1916 she completed her studies in Halle with a doctorate to become Dr. phil. from ( Rigorosum on June 29). She dedicated her dissertation on Etruscan urns to her mentor Carl Robert.

After completing her doctorate, Hamburg lived as a private scholar in Berlin-Wilmersdorf with her mother. She continued her archaeological research work, among other things as an unskilled worker for volume 3 of the ancient sarcophagus reliefs . For Pauly's real encyclopedia of classical antiquity (RE) she wrote two articles: Katharmos (1919) and Sarcophagi (1920). She belonged to the Archaeological Society of Berlin .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis Hamburg in 1934 emigrated to Paris . After the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht in World War II , Lisa Hamburg was interned in the Drancy assembly camp. On July 29, 1942, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau by transport .

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literature

  • Winckelmann program of the Archaeological Society of Berlin . Volume 94 (1934), p. 36
  • Beate Klarsfeld , Serge Klarsfeld : Le Memorial de la deportation des juifs de France . Paris 1978
  • Berlin's Memorial Book of the Jewish Victims of National Socialism , published by the Central Institute for Social Science Research. Berlin 1995

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SURNAME Hamburg, Lisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamburg, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp