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Cornelia Ewigleben (born 1954) is a German archaeologist and museum director. An alumna of the universities of Trier and Oxford, she has served as the director of two notable German museums: the Historical Museum of the Palatinate from 2000 to 2005, and the Landesmuseum Württemberg from 2005 to 2020. She also edited a book on the politics of the Roman games (Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome).
Cornelia Ewigleben | |
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Born | 1954 (age 69–70) Bispingen, Lower Saxony, Germany |
Academic background | |
Education | Oxford University University of Trier |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archaeology |
Institutions | Historical Museum of the Palatinate Landesmuseum Württemberg |
Cornelia Ewigleben was born in 1954 in Bispingen, Lower Saxony.[1] She studied classical archaeology at the universities of Trier and Oxford, and was awarded a doctorate for a dissertation on the archaeology of metalworking in Ancient Thrace.[2]
Between 2000 and 2005, she directed the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer. From 2005 she served as the director of the Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart.[1] In March 2020, she stepped down from her role at the museum,[3] and was replaced by the sociologist Astrid Pellengahr .[4] She also serves on the academic board of the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology.[5]
In 2000, Ewigleben and the German archaeologist Eckart Köhne published a conference volume on the politics of the Roman games. The book (Caesaren und Gladiatoren: die Macht der Unterhaltung im antiken Rom) was translated into English as Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome.[6]
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