Petra Amann

Petra Amann (* 1968 in Bludenz ) is an Austrian etrusologist .

Petra Amann studied law at the beginning of 1987/88 at the University of Salzburg and from 1988 to 1995 classical archeology , ancient history , prehistory and early history , Egyptology and oriental philology at the University of Vienna . Research stays for the thesis took her to the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in Florence and to the Università Federico II in Naples in 1993/94 . In March 1995 she passed the Magistra examination and then began a doctoral degree at the University of Vienna as a scholarship holder of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Once again she went to study at the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici , the Università degli Studi di Bologna and the Musei Civici of Reggio Emilia . In July 1996 she completed the Corso di Etruscologia e Antichità Italiche at the University of Perugia for foreigners .

Between 1989 and 1997 Amann took part in excavations in Carnuntum , Lauriacum , Tolfa , Elea / Velia and Roscigno as well as in surveys in Etruria Padana (Reggio Emilia). In 1998 she became an assistant at the then Institute for Ancient History, Archeology and Epigraphy at the University of Vienna. In March 1999 she received her doctorate from Luciana Aigner-Foresti , sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae . For her dissertation, she received the recognition award from the state of Vorarlberg and the recognition award from the Federal Ministry for Science and Transport

In 2008 she and Luciana Aigner-Foresti organized the 1st international conference of the 'Vienna / Austria' section of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici: “Public and private cults among the Etruscans and their effects on politics and society”.

The habilitation in Ancient History, Etruscology and Italic Antiquities took place in April 2010 at the University of Vienna. One month later she elected the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici as a foreign member. In the 2010/11 winter semester, Amann taught as a visiting professor at the University of Florence . In February 2013 she became Professor of Etruscology and Italian Archeology at the Institute for Ancient History and Archeology, Papyrology and Epigraphy at the University of Vienna. She has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2019 .

Amann is primarily concerned with Etruscan social and gender history, Etruscan epigraphy , the ancient Italian religious history, cultural contacts and cultural transfer in pre-imperial Italy, the ancient Italian peoples, especially the ancient Umbrians , and early Rome.

Fonts

• The Etruscan woman. Gender relations and position of women in early Etruria (9th-5th centuries BC). (= Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class: Memoranda ; Volume 289; Archaeological Research , Volume 5), Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7001-2934-3 .
• The ancient Umbrians between the Tiber and the Apennines, with particular attention to the influences from Etruria. Holzhausen, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85493-185-0 (habilitation thesis University of Vienna 2010, 476 pages).

Web links

• University of Vienna: Short biography of Petra Amann
• Literature by and about Petra Amann in the catalog of the German National Library