Marion Lichardus-Itten

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Marion Lichardus-Itten (* June 1941 in Zurich as Marion Itten) is a Swiss prehistoric scientist .

Life

She is the daughter of the Swiss painter, art theorist and art teacher Johannes Itten and his second wife Anneliese. She studied at the University of Zurich with the prehistorian Emil Vogt and received her doctorate in 1966 with a topic on the Horgen culture . She then worked as a curator at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich . In 1969, on a study trip to Slovakia, she met the prehistorian Jan Lichardus , who was then working as a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute in Nitra. After he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany , they married in 1971.

Between 1976 and 1981 she was first maître de conférences and then assistant professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris . From 1982 she worked there and at the universities of Heidelberg and Marburg as a private lecturer . After cumulatively in Marburg in 1988, habilitation , she had returned the same year as a professor at the Sorbonne, where she in 2006 emeritus was.

From 1986 onwards, in accordance with a cooperation between the Center national de la recherche scientifique , the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the History Museum of Blagoevgrad, she led the archaeological excavations near Kowachevo in the Struma Valley in Bulgaria , where a settlement area that had been inhabited since the earliest Neolithic was discovered.

Lichardus-Itten is a member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Bulgarian Archaeological Institute and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Sofia . She is President of the Johannes Itten Foundation.

Fonts (selection)

  • Marion Itten: The Horgen culture , Birkhäuser, Basel, 1970.
  • Marion Lichardus-Itten: The grave fields of the Grossgartacher group in Alsace , Saarbrücker contributions to antiquity 25, Habelt, Bonn, 1980, ISBN 978-3-7749-1423-0 .
  • Jan Lichardus, Marion Lichardus-Itten, avec des contributions de Gérard Bailloud et Jacques Cauvin: La Protohistoire de l'Europe. Le Néolithique et le Chalcolithique entre la Méditerranée et la mer Baltique. , Nouvelle Clio, l'histoire et sesproblemèmes, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1985.
  • Marion Lichardus-Itten et al. (Ed.): Contributions to Neolithic Research in Bulgaria , Saarbrücker Contributions to Antiquity 74, Habelt, Bonn, 2002, ISBN 978-3-7749-3105-3 .

literature

  • Jean-Paul Demoule, Marion Lichardus-Itten: une vie d'archéologie . In: Vassil Nikolov, Krum Bacvarov, Maria Gurova (eds.), Festschrift for Marion Lichardus-Itten , Studia Praehistorica 14, Sofia 2011, VII-IX.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology Marburg, Habilitations , accessed on September 25, 2019
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Marion Lichardus-Itten ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ Lichardus-Itten Marion ( Memento from November 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Lichardus-Itten, Marion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Itten, Marion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss prehistoric woman
DATE OF BIRTH June 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich