Ingeborg Scheibler (born 31 August 1929 in

Krefeld Krefeld ( , ; li, Krieëvel ), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, i ...

) is a German

classical archaeologist Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

. Ingeborg Scheibler was granted her doctorate at the

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on 17 April 1956 by

Bernhard Schweitzer Bernhard Schweitzer (3 October 1892, in Wesel – 16 July 1966, in Tübingen) was a German classical archeologist. Life From 1911-1917, he studied classical archaeology and philology in Heidelberg and Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1917 in ...

for her thesis ''Studien zur Komposition der frühgriechischen Flächenkunst. Die symmetrische Bildform und ihre Geschichte'' (Studies on the Composition of Early Greek Two-Dimensional Art: Symmetrical motifs and their history). In 1956/7 she received the Reisestipendium des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Subsequently, she was active in the Kerameikos excavation. She achieved her

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in 1971 at the University of Munich with her work ''Griechische Lampen (aus dem Kerameikos)'' (Greek Lamps of the Kerameikos). In Munich she was head conservator at the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke and taught as a professor extraordinary. Schiebler deals in particular with Greek pottery and painting, as well as art history. Her monograph, ''Griechische Töpferkunst'' (Greek Ceramic Art) is a standard reference work and has also been translated into Italian. As a noted expert on the production of Greek pottery and its economic, technical, and stylistic background, Scheibler was also responsible for a great part of the articles on these themes in

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and the Lexikon der Alten Welt. She is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Publications

* ''Die symmetrische Bildform in der frühgriechischen Flächenkunst'' (Symmetrical motifs in Early Greek Two-Dimensional Art), Lassleben, Kallmünz 1960. * ''Griechische Lampen'' (Greek Lamps), de Gruyter, Berlin 1976 (Kerameikos, Bd. 11) * ''Griechische Töpferkunst. Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe'' (Greek Ceramic Art: Production, trade, and use of ancient pottery), C. H. Beck, München 1983 (Becks archäologische Bibliothek) (2nd Edition, 1995; Italian: ''Il vaso in Grecia'', Longanesi, Mailand 2004 (Biblioteca di archeologia, Bd. 34) ) * ''Griechische Malerei der Antike'' (Greek Painting in Antiquity), C. H. Beck, München 1994

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Classical archaeologists German archaeologists German women archaeologists Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Scholars of ancient Greek pottery 1929 births Living people Archaeologists from North Rhine-Westphalia People from Krefeld {{Germany-archaeologist-stub