Ragna Enking
Ragna Enking (born April 25, 1898 in Cologne , † July 18, 1975 in Rome ) was a German classical archaeologist and Etruscanologist .
Ragna Enking, the daughter of the writer Ottomar Enking , studied art history and archeology in 1921 at the University of Jena with a thesis on contributions to the representation of the angel in the early Christian art doctorate , which remained unpublished. From 1928 she worked as an assistant at the Staatliche Skulpturensammlung Dresden , whose director she briefly became in 1945. Towards the end of the Second World War she made decisive contributions to the preservation of Dresden's art treasures. On July 30, 1946, she was dismissed without notice as part of the denazification . In 1946 she worked again at short notice for the State Art Collections of Saxony . She has lived in Rome ever since .
Ragna Enking wrote numerous essays, lexicon articles and other small writings on art historical and archaeological topics. She was a member of the German Archaeological Institute .
Fonts (selection)
- The Apis altar by Johann Melchior Dinglingers . Glückstadt 1939
- Etruscan spirituality . Berlin 1947
- S. Andrea Cata Barbara e S. Antonio abbate sull'Esquilino . Rome 1964
Translations
- Ezio Tongiorgi: The Toirano Cave . Bordighera 1964
- Nino Lamboglia: The Tropaeum of Augustus in La Turbie . Bordighera 1965
- Fausto Codino: Introduction to Homer . Berlin 1970
- Mario Rotili: The Museum of Samnium in the Santa Sofia Abbey and in the Rocca dei Rettori in Benevento . Rome 1971
literature
- Museums: Cranach painting: Protest from Dresden . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1958, pp. 48-50 ( Online - Mar. 19, 1958 ).
- Ragna Enking . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 12th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-11-004470-6 , p. 650 .
- Uwe Hartmann: Cultural assets in World War II: relocation, discovery, repatriation , coordination office for the loss of cultural assets , Magdeburg 2007, p. 305, ISBN 978-3-9811367-0-8 .
- Kathrin Iselt: “Special Commissioner of the Führer”: The art historian and museum man Hermann Voss (1884–1969) , Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-41220572-0 (= Studies on Art , Volume 20, also dissertation on of the TU Dresden , 2009). Pp. 328-329.
Web links
- Ragna Enking's literature in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ See: Martin Miller, Wissenschaft für Laien, in: M.-L. Haack (ed.), L'etruscologie dans l'Europe d'apres-guerre (Bordeaux 2017) p. 219.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Enking, Ragna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German archaeologist and etruscologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th July 1975 |
| Place of death | Rome |