Margot Schmidt

Margot Schmidt (born July 22, 1932 in Coesfeld , † March 24, 2004 in Basel ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Even as a child, Margot Schmidt came into contact with the ancient remains while visiting her grandparents in Trier . Traditionally, members of her family studied law . Schmidt also began this course and studied Classical Archeology, Egyptology and Ancient History at the same time , and she also attended courses in Classical Philology , Art History , Ethnology and Religious Studies at the universities in Münster , Hamburg , Tübingen and Naples . In 1959 she was with Max Wegner with the work The Darius painter and his circle. PhD studies on late Apulian vase painting in Münster. For her dissertation she was awarded the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute , with the help of which she was able to travel to the Mediterranean and the Middle East in 1959/60 . After her return she was commissioned to edit part of the vase collection of the University of Heidelberg for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany (Volume 23, Heidelberg 2).

1962 Schmidt was a research assistant at the in formation and under the direction of Ernst Berger standing Antikenmuseum Basel . From 1966 until her retirement in 1997 she was a conservator and deputy museum director. Schmidt began teaching at the university in 1975 as a lecturer in classical archeology at the University of Basel . In 1976 she completed her habilitation there with the thesis Studies on the content and form of Lower Italian funerary art . In 1982 she was appointed Associate Professor of Classical Archeology. In 1982 she was only the second woman after Julia Gauss to receive the renowned Basel Science Prize. She turned down offers to manage several German museums. She was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute as well as the Tarantine institutions Convegni di Studi sulla Magna Grecia and Istituto per la storia e l'archeologia della Magna Grecia . Schmidt was also a member of the tripartite commission responsible for publishing the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum in Switzerland and, since 1989, of the editorial team of the magazine Antike Kunst . The cancer scientist gave her last lecture in 2001 at the University of Bern . In 2004 she died after a long illness.

Since her doctorate, Schmidt had been a specialist in Lower Italian vase painting , in particular for its iconography and iconology . Along with Arthur D. Trendall and a few other researchers in the field, she was one of the few people who knew how to grasp it in its entirety. In addition, she dealt with Roman , Etruscan and Egyptian art and also with the ancient history of theater and religion .

Fonts

• The Darius painter and his circle. Studies on late Apulian vase painting , Aschendorff, Münster 1960 (Orbis antiquus, issue 15)
• The Basel Medea sarcophagus. A masterpiece of late Cantonese art , Wasmuth, Tübingen 1968 (Monumenta artis antiquae, volume 3)
• with Arthur Dale Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou : A group of Apulian grave vases in Basel. Studies on the content and form of sub-Italian sepulchral art , Archäologischer Verlag / von Zabern, Basel / Mainz 1976 (publications by the Antikenmuseum Basel, Volume 3)
• with Vera Slehoferova: The broken jug. Vase fragments from the classical period from Athens and Greater Greece. HA Cahn collection. Exhibition at the Antikenmuseum Basel and the Ludwig Collection, (June 13 - October 31, 1991) , the Basel Antiken Museum and the Ludwig Collection, Basel 1991

Web links

• Literature by and about Margot Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Margot Schmidt (* July 22, 1932, † March 24, 2004)