Isabelle Kelly Raubitschek (September 2, 1914 - 1988) was an American art historian, archaeologist, and professor of art at Stanford University.
Biography
Raubitschek was born in Boston, and was the oldest of three children.[1] She began to study foreign languages as a child, eventually becoming fluent in Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Latin, Italian, French and German.[2] She met and studied with the art historian, Margarete Bieber, when she attended Barnard College in 1935.[3] While at Barnard, she received the Lucille Pulitzer scholarship, which provided finances for four full years of study.[1] She continued her graduate education at Columbia University and in 1936 went to the Institute of Art and Archaeology at Sorbonne.[3] In 1937, she went to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, where she studied for a year.[1] Upon return to the United States, she taught in New York until 1940, when she became the assistant to the palaeographer, E.A. Lowe at Princeton University.[1]
At Princeton, she met her future husband, Antony Raubitschek.[1] Raubitschek married Antony in 1941 and the two of them were "lifelong" collaborators.[4] She and her husband raised a family and he was a "supportive husband."[1] Raubitschek was the chair of the archaeology department at San Francisco State University from 1963 until 1966.[2][3] She joined the faculty at Stanford University in 1966.[3] In the early 1970s, Raubitschek studied metal objects found at Isthmia; this research would be "the source for her major professional accomplishment as an archaeologist."[3] Raubitschek worked on cataloging and discussing the thousands of metal objects from the Isthmian sanctuary, finishing her manuscript in July 1988.[1]
Her work, published posthumously, Isthmia: Excavations by the University of Chicago Under the Auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Vol VII, The Metal Objects (1952-1989), laid the "groundwork for all future research and publication of the metal objects from Isthmia."[5] The American Journal of Archaeology called Isthmia VII a "critical perspective on the most important sanctuary of one of the most important gods in the ancient world."[6]
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External links
- Isthmia VII (preview)