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.