Jutta Meischner
| Jutta Frieda Luise Meischner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 13, 1935 Danzig Free State |
| Occupation |
ASET Trustee and Academic Director, Emerita Contributor, ret. (Referentin i. R.), German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) |
| Parent(s) | Herbert (Baurat - member of the Danzig Board of Works) and Lilly Meischner |
ASET Trustee and Academic Director, Emerita Contributor, ret. (Referentin i. R.),
Jutta Frieda Luise Meischner (born 1935, Danzig, Germany) is a German archeologist with specialities in philology, classical archaeology, ancient history with a doctorate on Classical Archaeology. In 1964, she entered the service of German Archaeological Institute, Berlin.
The daughter of the civil engineer Herbert Meischner and his wife Lilly, she was born in 1935 in what was then the Free City of Danzig. After fleeing Danzig in January 1945 in the wake of World-War II, she attended the Droste-Hülshoff High School in Berlin-Zehlendorf, where she passed her A-levels in 1954. At the Free University of Berlin, she studied classical philology, classical archeology, ancient history and completed studies of Greek and Latin. She spent the academic year 1958/59 at the University of Athens and Greece. The next year was dedicated to the study of Greek and Roman ancient collections of the major museums in order to prepare her dissertation on "The Female Portrait in the Severan Period". Her academic advisor, Friedrich Wilhelm Goethert, was instrumental in getting her a post as an assistant with Friedrich Matz, the Younger, in Sarkophag-Corpus, Marburg, as well as in assisting with her first publication "A second type of portrait of the Empress Crispina". After completing her doctorate in 1964, she joined the civil service at the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, from which she retired after 35 years of service in 2000. During this time she also continued her studies of late antique portraiture, which culminated in a brief monograph entitled "Portraits of Late Antiquity" (bnb-Verlag Bremen, 2001). A revised and expanded edition in German and English is currently being prepared.
In 1988 she was invited by the Archaeological Institute in Warsaw for a lecture and a visit to Danzig. In 1998, she lectured in Mérida on the great Missorium of Theodosius I where she credited it to Theodosius II. She toured the great museums in the U.S. several times. Tunisian mosaics inspired her to study the Greek and Roman sports. The origin of the palm award, for example, can be seen in the wand of the paidotribe in the palaestra. The wands were switches and palm fronds. The latter then served as an unofficial trophy. The black-figure and red-figure vases evidence this practice. In the great Panhellenic Games of the prize remained the wreath. The palm trophy in the imperial period was abstracted to the shape of a golden palm trunk, the so-called 'Preiszylinder' for successful racehorses. With the New Testament Pauline epistles the symbol of the victor's palm keeps its validity even today.
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