Elisabeth Ettlinger
{{Short description|Swiss archaeologist (1915–2012)}}{{Infobox academic|honorific_prefix=|image=|birth_date= {{birth date|df=yes|1915|7|14}}|birth_place= |death_date= {{death date and age|df=yes|2012|3|21|1915|7|14}}|death_place= |nationality=|occupation=|spouse=|alma_mater=University of Basel|thesis_title=Die Keramik aus den Frauenthermen von Augst|thesis_year=1942|discipline=Archaeology; Architecture|workplaces=University of Bern|doctoral_students=|notable_works=}}
Elisabeth Ettlinger, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FSA}} ({{nee}} Lachmann; 14 July 1915 – 21 March 2012) was a German-born archaeologist and academic, who specialised in archaeology of the Roman provinces and Roman Switzerland.
Career
Ettlinger completed her doctorate in 1942 at the University of Basel,{{Cite web |title=Ettlinger, Elisabeth (1915-2012) {{!}} Propylaeum-VITAE |url=https://sempub.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum_vitae/de/wisski/navigate/27065/view |access-date=2024-09-20 |website=sempub.ub.uni-heidelberg.de}} having immigrated to Switzerland in the 1930s to escape Nazi Germany:{{cite web |title=Obituaries - Elisabeth Ettlinger (14.7.1915 - 21.3.2012) |url=https://www.fautores.org/pages/obituaries.htm#Ettlinger |access-date=7 September 2019 |website=www.fautores.org}} her thesis was published in 1949 as Die Keramik der Augster Thermen (Insula XVII). Ausgrabung 1937-38.{{Cite web |last=Zuerich |first=ETH-Bibliothek |title=Jahresbericht / Gesellschaft Pro Vindonissa |url=https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=gpv-001:2011:0#108 |access-date=2024-09-20 |website=E-Periodica |language=de}} From September 1963 to June 1964, she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.{{cite web |title=Elisabeth Ettlinger |url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/elisabeth-ettlinger |access-date=7 September 2019 |website=Institute for Advanced Study |language=en}} From 1964 to 1980, Ettlinger taught at the University of Bern.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-31 |title=History of the department |url=https://www.iaw.unibe.ch/about_us/department/history_of_the_department/index_eng.html |access-date=2024-09-20 |website=Institute of Archaeological Sciences}} Her research centred on Roman ceramics such as Terra Sigillata, and she co-founded Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores, a learned society dedicated to Roman pottery: she was its secretary, vice-president and then served as its president from 1971 to 1980.{{cite web |last1=Zabehlicky-Scheffenegger |first1=Susanne |title=HISTORIA FAVTORVM: A (partly personal) illustrated history of the RCRF |url=https://www.fautores.org/pages/historia-fautorum.htm |access-date=7 September 2019 |website=Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores}} In 1972 she published Die römischen Fibeln in der Schweiz, which "still acts as an essential reference book for the study of Roman brooches."{{Cite book |last=Breeze |first=David J. |title=A History of the Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1949-2022: A Retrospective to mark the 25th Congress in Nijmegen |date=2022 |publisher=Archaeopress |isbn=978-1-80327-302-0 |pages=17}} Ettlinger also worked prolifically on Vindonissa, the site of a Roman military camp, and served as president of the Gesellschaft Pro Vindonissa.{{Cite journal |date=2012 |title=Elisabeth Ettlinger |url=https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=jas-004:2012:95::244#244 |journal=Jahrbuch Archäologie Schweiz = Annuaire d'Archéologie Suisse = Annuario d'Archeologia Svizzera = Annual review of Swiss Archaeology |volume=95}} Her archives are held at the University of Basel.{{Cite book |last1=Ettlinger |first1=Elisabeth |url=https://swisscollections.ch/Record/991170432778105501 |title=Nachlass Elisabeth Ettlinger (1915-2012) |last2=Roth-Rubi |first2=Katrin |date=1918–2004 |series=Signatur NL: Nachlässe}}
Honours
Ettlinger was elected to the German Archaeological Institute in 1968, and as a corresponding member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in 1975. On 27 November 1975, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).{{Cite web |title=Professor Dr Elisabeth Ettlinger |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/our-fellows/directory/professor-dr-elisabeth-ettlinger/ |access-date=2024-09-20 |website=Society of Antiquaries of London |language=en-GB}}
Personal life
Ettlinger was born in 1915 in Breslau into a Jewish academic family: her parents were {{interlanguage link|Richard Lachmann (geologist)|de|Richard Lachmann}} (1885–1916) and Hedwig Hopf (1893–1953); her maternal uncle was the mathematician Heinz Hopf (1894–1971). After her father's death, she and her mother moved to Berlin, and then in 1935 to Switzerland to escape Nazi Germany. In 1940, she married the Swiss microbiologist {{interlanguage link|Leopold Ettlinger (microbiologist)|de|Leopold Ettlinger (Mikrobiologe)}}, with whom she had two sons.
Selected works
- Ettlinger, Elisabeth (1951). Legionary Pottery from Vindonissa. The Journal of Roman Studies, 41, 105–111.
https://doi.org/10.2307/298103 - Ettlinger, E., & Fellmann, R. (1955). Ein Sigillata-Depotfund aus dem Legionslager Vindonissa. Germania: Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 33(4), 364-373.
- Ettlinger, Elisabeth (1972). Die römischen Fibeln in der Schweiz. Bern: Francke
- Ettlinger, Elisabeth (1977). Aspects of amphora-typology,-seen from the North. Publications de l'École Française de Rome, 32(1), 9-16.
- {{cite book |last1=Ettlinger |first1=Elisabeth |title=Helvetische Reliefsigillaten und die Rolle der Werkstatt Bern-Enge |date=1979 |publisher=Stämpfli |location=Bern |language=de |isbn=3-7272-0512-1}}
- {{cite book |last1=Ettlinger |first1=Elisabeth |title=Die Italische Sigillata von Novaesium |date=1983 |publisher=Rheinisches Landesmuseum |location=Bonn |language=de |isbn=3-7861-1369-6}}
- {{cite journal |last1= Ettlinger |first1= Elisabeth |title= Conspectus formarum terrae sigillatae Italico modo confectae |journal= Journal of Roman Archaeology |date=1990 |volume= 6 |pages= 411–414 |publisher= R. Habelt |location=Bonn |doi= 10.1017/S1047759400011776 |s2cid= 250350622 |language= de |url= https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-archaeology/article/new-typology-for-italian-sigillata-e-ettlinger-b-hedinger-b-hoffmann-p-m-kenrick-g-pucci-k-rothrubi-g-schneider-s-von-schnurbein-c-m-wells-and-s-zabehlickyscheffenegger-conspectus-formarum-terrae-sigillatae-italico-modo-confectae-materialien-zur-romischgermanischen-keramik-heft-10-habelt-bonn1990-pp-ix-213-numerous-plates-of-profiles-and-2-charts-isbn-3774924562/0B44740BDA0CE3FB178F611A3513D695# }}
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