Maja Sprenger

Maja Sprenger (born September 11, 1944 in Marburg , † June 6, 1976 in Rome ) was a German classical archaeologist whose main focus was Etruscology .

After attending grammar school in Karlsruhe , she studied Classical Archeology, Ancient History and Sinology in Marburg, Hamburg, Berlin, Freiburg and Rome from 1964 to 1967. At the University of Freiburg she was born on July 10, 1970 with Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt with the work The Etruscan Sculpture of the 5th Century BC. And her relationship to Greek art . In 1971/72 she received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute .

She died as a result of a traffic accident. Her grave is in the Protestant cemetery in Rome.

Fonts

Qualque annotazione sull'esegesi e la cronologia della tomba dipinta detta del Guerriero a Tarquinia , In: Studi etruschi 37, 1969, pp. 403-412.
The Etruscan sculpture of the 5th century BC BC and their relationship to Greek art . L '"Erma" di Bretschneider, Rome 1972.
A sub-archaic Etruscan bronze statuette . In: Archäologischer Anzeiger 1973, pp. 652–658.
with Gilda Bartoloni : The Etruscans. Art and history . Hirmer, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7774-2890-6 .

literature

Massimo Pallottino : In memoriam Maja Sprenger . In Maja Sprenger, Gilda Bartoloni: The Etruscans. Art and history . Hirmer, Munich 1976, pp. 5-6.
Wolfgang Schiering : Appendix . In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (Hrsg.): Archäologenbildnisse . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , p. 331.

Web links

Literature by and about Maja Sprenger in the catalog of the German National Library
Portrait and grave

Individual evidence

↑ Nicholas Stanley-Price: The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome . Ed .: The non-Catholic cemetery in Rome. Rome 2014, ISBN 978-88-909168-1-6 , pp. 157 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sprenger, Maja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 1976
Place of death	Rome

[1] Nicholas Stanley-Price: The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome . Ed .: The non-Catholic cemetery in Rome. Rome 2014, ISBN 978-88-909168-1-6 , pp. 157 .