Ruth Lindner

Ruth Lindner (born April 14, 1954 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber ; † October 28, 2008 there ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Ruth Lindner passed her Abitur at the maths and science Reichsstadt-Gymnasium in her hometown. Between 1973 and 1981 she studied classical archeology, ancient history , prehistory and early history , art history and ancient numismatics in Würzburg and Bonn . In 1981 she received her doctorate in Würzburg with the work The Gable Group in Eleusis with the Robbery of Persephone summa cum laude . She then became a research assistant and later an academic adviser at the Institute for Archeology and Prehistoryin Würzburg. This activity was interrupted when Lindner was able to travel to the Mediterranean region - Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, North Africa - but also Bulgaria, Romania, Poland and the Soviet Union in 1984/85 as holder of the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . Between 1988 and 1990 Lindner was a habilitation fellow from the German Research Foundation . During this time she again traveled to Turkey as a scholarship holder, and later also to the USA. She was entrusted with the publication of the newly found frieze of the Nysa theater . The habilitation took place in 1991 with a thesis on the topic of myth and identity. The self-portrayal of cities in Asia Minor in the Roman Empire . Further activities followed in Würzburg until 1997, where she has taught as an adjunct professor since 2001. From 1993 to 1995 she also held lectureships at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg . In the summer semester of 2001, Lindner was a professor at the University of Leipzig , and in 2002/03 she was visiting professor at the University of Vienna for a year . After a serious illness, Lindner died at the age of only 54.

Lindner wrote several major articles for the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae . In addition to the normal subjects, she also taught photography in archaeological research, the relationship between people in antiquity and animals, star sagas and star beliefs in antiquity, but also the " sandal film ". As the second spokesperson for the graduate school “Perception of the Gender Difference in Religious Symbol Systems”, she increasingly devoted herself to gender studies . Her sister Friederike Lindner has been running the City Museum in Crailsheim since 2007 and previously the German Toy Museum in Sonneberg .

Fonts

• The robbery of Persephone in ancient art , Triltsch, Würzburg 1984 ISBN 3-87825-039-8 ( Contributions to archeology , Volume 16)
• Myth and Identity. Studies on the self-portrayal of cities in Asia Minor in the Roman Empire , Steiner, Stuttgart 1994 ISBN 3-515-06529-6 (Writings of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Humanities Series, Volume 9)
• The gladiator in the "gazebo" , in: Nürnberger Blätter zur Archäologie , Issue 16 (1999/2000), pp. 175–194.

literature

• Carina Weiß, Erika Simon (editors): Folia in memoriam Ruth Lindner collecta , JH Röll, Dettelbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-89754-348-5 ( excerpts online; PDF )

Web links

• Literature by and about Ruth Lindner in the catalog of the German National Library