Margarete Bieber

Margarete Bieber ( born July 31, 1879 in Schoenau, West Prussia, † February 25, 1978 in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States) was a German - American high school teacher and the first professor of classical archeology in Germany.

Life

Bieber was born as the daughter of a wealthy mill owner. Therefore, it was her financially possible to prepare from 1899 on the humanistic private high school by Helene Lange in Berlin at the High School, which she completed as External 1901 in Thorn. She graduated from the winter semester 1901/ 02 in Berlin, from 1904 in Bonn at Georg Loeschcke, where she was also his doctorate in 1907. Since that time women were not officially admitted to the program, they had to make do with the status of a guest listener the whole time.

In the following years, Bieber held on for extended research visits in the Mediterranean. As a first classical archaeologist, she received 1909/10, a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute ( DAI). By 1914, they first researched in Athens, then in Rome, and in 1913 became a corresponding member of the DAI. When World War II broke out, she had to return to Germany and worked as a Red Cross helper. From Easter 1915, she worked as a representative for the canceled Gerhart Rodenwaldt and Valentin Müller her assistant now teaches at the University of Berlin PhD supervisor Loeschcke. When he fell ill shortly afterwards and died in November 1915, she took over the representation of Loeschckes Chair until the successor appointed Ferdinand Noack forbade her from teaching and Bieber could only discourage private courses.

After several unsuccessful attempts, she was finally admitted in 1919 to intercede Rodenwaldts at the University of Giessen for his habilitation, even before the official control of 1920. Thus it was in 1923 appointed the first lecturer of the University of Giessen and unscheduled Associate Professor. From 1928 she ran the Giessen Institute of Classical Studies, as the ordinary chair was not filled for financial reasons. In 1931 she was appointed Associate Professor scheduled. Everything looked after, that they would get the chair in 1933. Since she was a Jew at the Nazis, she was released in July 1933, however.

Friends convinced her to leave Germany in 1934 to the United States, where she first taught at Barnard College. The "American Association of University Women" she recommended to Columbia University, where she taught as a Visiting Professor Department of Art History and Archaeology in 1935-1948. In 1940 she became an American citizen. Even after her retirement, she taught until 1956 on, it was even the first visiting professor at Princeton University (1949 /50).

After 1945, they had to fight for their pension rights elaborated in casting themselves legally. It was there in 1959 appointed the first and only honorary senator (1997, a university lecture hall was named after Margarete Bieber ). She remained active into old age scientifically and last lived in their adopted daughter Ingeborg Sachs In old age of 98 years, she died in New Canaan in the state of Connecticut (USA).

Bieber's special field of research was the ancient clothes, her since her time in Berlin devoted extensive studies, next to the ancient theater and the ancient sculpture. She continued to publish contributions to the reception of antiquity and sculpture in American museums.

Publications (selection )

• The Dresden acting relief. A contribution to the history of the tragic costume and Greek art. Thesis, University of Berlin in 1907.
• The ancient sculptures and bronzes of the Royal Museum Fridericianum in Cassel. Marburg 1915.
• The monuments to the theater being in ancient times. Habil font, University of Giessen, 1919.
• Greek clothing. Berlin 1928.
• The sculpture of the Hellenistic age. Columbia University Press, New York 1955.
• Development history of Greek costume. In 1967.
• Ancient copies. Contributions to the history of Greek and Roman art. New York University Press, New York 1977.