Sybille Haynes

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Sybille Haynes
Denys Haynes
Academic background
Alma materGoethe University Frankfurt
Doctoral advisorGuido Kaschnitz von Weinberg
Academic work
DisciplineClassical archaeology and ancient history
Sub-disciplineEtruscology
InstitutionsBritish Museum
Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Sybille Edith Haynes,

née Overhoff; born 3 July 1926) is a British expert on Etruscology. She grew up and was educated in Germany and Austria before moving to the UK in the 1950s. She worked with Etruscan artefacts at the British Museum for many years as well as publishing numerous books, for fellow scholars and also for the general public. In the 1980s she joined the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
.

Early life and education

Born Sybille Overhoff on 3 July 1926 to Edith née Kloeppel, her German mother, and Julius Overhoff, her Austrian father, she was one of five siblings including her twin sister

summa cum laude in December 1950.[2] She went on to write a thesis on Etruscan bronze mirrors, supervised and encouraged by Guido von Kaschnitz
.

British Museum

Sarcophagus from the Sperandio necropolis near Perugia, discussed in Haynes' Etruscan Civilisation.

While she was helping at the British Museum in 1950, where the Greek and Roman department had suffered severe bomb damage, she met

MBE, Haynes was responsible for the opening of the first ever Etruscan gallery in the classical department of the British Museum.[2] In 1981 she was honoured by the Order of the Dignitari dell'Ombra della Sera in Volterra
.

Later career

In 1985 she moved to Oxford where she was invited to join

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. In 2000 her book, Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History was very well-received, and has been described as "definitive and comprehensive"[3] as well as "authoritative, precise, engaging and articulate".[4] Neil MacGregor, while director of the British Museum, called Haynes an "Etruscologist of international repute" in the introduction to a 2011 festschrift.[2] A Sybille Haynes Lecturership in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology at Somerville College, Oxford was created in 2013, and the university hosts a recently established annual Sybille Haynes lecture series open to the public. The current Sybille Haynes lecturer is Charlotte Potts
.

Select bibliography

As well as writing numerous articles, Haynes published these books:

  • 2008, Die Etruskerin, Mainz
  • 2005, Kulturgeschichte der Etrusker, Mainz
  • 2000, Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History, London (2nd edn 2005)
  • 1987, The Augur’s Daughter, (fiction) London (repr. 2008)
  • 1981, Die Tochter des Augers, (fiction) Frankfurt(repr. 2008) as Die Etruskerin.
  • 1985, Etruscan Bronzes, London and New York
  • 1985, Zwischen Mäander und Taurus: eine archäologische Reise in Kleinasien, Munich.
  • 1981, Die Tochter des Augurs. Aus dem Leben der Etrusker, Mainz
  • 1974, Land of the Chimaera. An Archaeological Excursion in the SouthWest of Turkey, London
  • 1971, Etruscan Sculpture, London
  • 1965, Etruscan Bronze Utensils, London (rev. edn 1974)

References

  1. ^ a b American Philosophical Society biography of Elfriede Knauer Archived 2017-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c d e Etruscan by Definition: Papers in honour of Sybille Haynes, MBE, British Museum Press 2009
  3. ^ Nancy de Grummond, Review of 'Honoring Sybille Haynes at the British Museum', Journal of Roman Archaeology, Volume 24, 2011, pp. 523-526
  4. ^ Richard De Puma, Review of Etruscan Civilization in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 19 Oct 2001
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