Authors

Katharina Brandt holds a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Heidelberg. Since 2002 she has been employed in the library and the photographic archive of the German Archaeological Institute Athens, where she came into daily contact with the old photographic material. This resulted in a keen interest in the department’s history. She is currently part of the project >> 150 th Anniversary (2024) – History of the DAI Athens<< during which the idea of writing about the people at the DAI Athens was born.

Katja Sporn, classical archaeologist and Director of the German Archaeological Institute of Athens, conducts fieldwork in Kalapodi and the Phokian valley of the Kephissos river. One of her many fields of interest is the history of archaeology in Greece. Since she became Director in 2014 she has initiated several projects focusing on archival material kept in the Institute, such as “ARCHAthen” (https://www.dainst.org/projekt/-/project-display/4806692 financed by the DFG [Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft]), the Institute’s collection of antiquities “Shapes of Ancient Greece” (https://www.dainst.org/projekt/-/project-display/4712484 financed by the BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung), and the Institute’s history such as “150th Anniversary (2024) – The History of the DAI Athens”

Dimitris Grigoropoulos (BA 1999 Athens; MA 2001 Durham; PhD 2006 Durham) is Senior Research Staff Member and Head of Archive at the DAI Athens. His research interests include the archaeology of Roman Greece, pottery studies, archaeological data management and the history of Classical archaeology. He currently co-ordinates ARCHAthen, a DFG-funded project focusing on the classification and digitization of a large part of the DAI Athens archives (https://www.dainst.org/projekt/-/project-display/4806692).

Veronika Führer holds a Master’s degree in Classical Archaeology and Aegean Prehistory from the University of Salzburg as well as a Master’s degree in Auxiliary Sciences and Archival Studies from the University of Vienna. Her research interests include historic documents and writings, the history of classical archaeology, networks in the 19th century and Mycenaean pottery. During an archival internship, she first started working on holdings from the DAI Athens archives, later transcribed documents from the early years of the institute and then completed a master’s thesis on the personal diary of Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt. She also was a team member of the ÖAW go! digital 2.0 project “Ambraser Heldenbuch – Transcription and scientific data set” from 2017 to 2019.

Vasiliki Barlou-Jaeggi studied history and archaeology at the University of Athens and completed her dissertation on the archaic sculpture of Paros in 2009 at the University of Marburg, Germany. For several years she taught as a research assistant at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Giessen and participated in numerous excavations in Greece, particularly on Paros and Despotiko in the Cyclades. In 2010, she participated in the first systematic study of the Rubensohn estate at the Jewish Museum of Berlin. Her research interests include early Greek sculpture and memorial culture, the history of archaeology, and phenomena of destruction and resilience in the ancient world. She is a research associate at the University of Lausanne, and is currently leading a project on provenance research at the Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig.

Charis Kanellopoulou is an art historian, scientific advisor, and curator of the Bank of Greece Art Collection. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Athens and teaches Art History at the Open University of Cyprus and at the Hellenic Open University. Her interests focus on modern and contemporary art, public art, the social character of art, and the relationship between artistic creation and archives. She is the editor of the collective volumes Kritiki+Techni (Criticism+Art), Vol. 6, Contemporary Art and the Archive: Archival Collections, Artistic Practices, Reflections (Athens: AICA Hellas, 2015, repr. 2020); Ancient World and Modern Art (Athens: Centre for Culture, Research and Documentation of the Bank of Greece, 2021); 10 years Contemporary Greek Art Institute (Athens: ISET, 2021); Yannoulis Chalepas: Notes on his life and work (Athens: Centre for Culture, Research and Documentation of the Bank of Greece), 2022. She is the author of the book Yannis Stinis: Route through time (2022), which was published in the series of the Centre for Culture, Research and Documentation of the Bank of Greece dedicated to painters and engravers who have worked at the National Mint of the Bank. She is a member of AICA Hellas (Greek section of the International Association of Art Critics) and of the Association of Greek Art Historians.

Marie-Christin Künzelmann studied Classical Cultures at the University of Freiburg and the Roma Tre University and writes currently her doctoral thesis at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is a research assistant of the project “SAG – Shapes of Ancient Greece” (https://www.dainst.org/projekt/-/project-display/4712484 financed by the BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung). As part of the project, she is currently reappraising Th. Wiegand's excavation of a villa in Old Phaleron in 1895. In this context, she dealt intensively with the young Theodor Wiegand.