Dr. Margarete Bieber

Title: Dr.
Prename: Margarete
Surname: Bieber
Profession: Archaeolgist, professor
Birthday: 07/31/1879
Place of birth: Schönau
Date of death: 02/25/1978
Place of death: New Canaan, CT
Children: Ingeborg Sachs (adopted)
Education: Helene Lange’s private high school for girls, Berlin; final high school examinations (*Abitur*) taken externally; 1902 university studies (archaeology) in Berlin and Bonn; 1907 doctorate
Career: 1909–10 German Institute for Archaeology (DAI) research scholarship in Rome; 1910–14 research and teaching in Rome; 1914 Red Cross assistant in Berlin; from 1915 stands in for Prof. Loeschke working on classical clothing; 1919 university lecturer qualification (*Habilitation*); 1923 professor extraordinarius, Giessen University; 1928 director of the Giessen Institute for Classical and Ancient Studies; 1933 dismissed; 1934 visiting professor at Cambridge; 1935–37 visiting professor at Barnard College, New York; 1937–48 visiting professor at Columbia University; 1939 US citizenship; 1949–50 teaches at Princeton University
Memberships: 1926–33 German Federation of University Women (DAB); 1957 appointed honorary senator of Giessen University
Biographical literature: Larissa Bonfante Warren and Rolf Winkes, *Bibliography of the Works of Margarete Bieber. For her 90th Birthday July 1931* (New York: Privately published, 1969); Larissa Bonfante, “Margarete Bieber (1879–1978): An Archaeologist in Two Worlds,” in *Women as Interpreters of the Visual Arts, 1820–1979*, ed. Claire Richter Sherman and Adele M. Holcomb (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981), 239–74; [American National Biography Online, Margarete Bieber](http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-01305.html?a=1&n=bieber&d=10&ss=0&q=1)
Major works: *Das Dresdener Schauspielerrelief. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des tragischen Kostüms und der griechischen Kunst* (diss.; Bonn: F. Cohen, 1907); *Die Denkmäler zum Theaterwesen im Altertum* (Berlin: Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher Verleger, 1919 ); *Griechische Kleidung* (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1928); *Entwicklungsgeschichte der griechischen Tracht* (Berlin: Mann, 1967)
Links: [Dictionary of Art Historians](http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/bieberm.htm)