Ulla Kreilinger

Ulla Kreilinger (born September 11, 1962 in Passau ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Ulla Kreilinger graduated from the Leopoldinum in 1981 in her hometown. She won the Dr. Otto Thaler Prize for ancient languages . After graduating from high school, she began studying Classical Archeology, Greek Studies , Latin Studies and Provincial Roman Archeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , and in 1984 she moved to the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . During her studies she already worked on several excavations in Germany and Italy. Kreilinger spent a year studying as a DAAD scholarship holderto Rome, where she worked as a research assistant in the photo library of the Rome department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). In 1989 she became an employee at the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg , where she was involved in the inventory, cataloging and scientific processing of Roman glasses. In 1990 she did her doctorate in Heidelberg under Tonio Hölscher with a thesis on Roman bronze appliques with historical subjects and became a research assistant at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . Here she created a database for the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae project. In 1990 she then became a research assistant in the Hispania Antiqua project in the Madrid department of the DAI. For the project she worked on the Roman mosaics of the Iberian Peninsula. During this time she was also a DAI travel grant recipient . In 1991 Kreilinger became a general advisor at the Athens department of the DAI. During the Greek years she took part in the excavation in Megalopolis , which was directed by Hans Lauter .

Kreilinger stayed in Greece until 1996 and then went back to Germany, where she initially received a scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 1997/98 and began her first habilitation project at the Philipps University of Marburg . But she did not complete the work project Cults on Greek Agorai with special consideration of the Peloponnese in the late Classical-Hellenistic period . In 1998 she became a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . From 1999 to 2002 she also acted as the deputy women's representative of her faculty, and from 2002 to 2006 she was the women's representative. The habilitation took place in Erlangen in 2003 with a thesis on decent nudity. Personal hygiene, cleansing rites and the phenomenon of female nudity in classical Athens . For her work she received the habilitation award from the University of Erlangen. In 2004 Kreilinger became senior assistant. From April 2008 to March 2010 she represented the professorship of the chair holder Hartmut Matthäus .

Kreilinger is particularly concerned with everyday images on Greek ceramics, cults on Greek agorai , the historical topography of the Peloponnese , Greece in the Roman Empire and cultural contacts in southern Italy .

Fonts

• Roman bronze appliques. Historical reliefs in small format . Verlag Archäologie und Geschichte, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-9801863-7-7 (Archeology and History, Vol. 6).
• with Martin Boss and Peter Kranz (eds.): Antikensammlung Erlangen. Selection catalog . Palm and Enke, Erlangen-Jena 2002, ISBN 3-7896-0655-3 (Writings from the Erlangen Collection of Antiquities, Vol. 1).
• In the face of power. Roman imperial portraits in Erlangen. A student exhibition of the Institute for Classical Archeology in Erlangen (ed.). Bodner, Pressath 2003, ISBN 3-937117-00-8 (Writings of the Erlanger Antikensammlung, Vol. 2).
• Decent nudity. Body care, cleansing rites and the phenomenon of female nudity in archaic-classical Athens . Leidorf, Rahden 2007, ISBN 978-3-89646-982-3 (Tübingen archaeological research, Vol. 2).

Web links

• Kreilinger on the website of the University of Erlangen