The Crisler Library at
Ephesos

Hilke Thür

Curriculum vitae
Hilke Thür. Born 1941 in Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Study   of architecture at technical university 
in Munich (Dipl.Ing. 1965). Study of   Classical Archeology at University in Vienna (Ph.D. 1980). 
From 1973 to 1987   work with excavation in Carnuntum/Austria. Since 1975 work with Ephesos   
excavation, from 1997 to 2005 second director of Ephesos excavation.   Habilitation 1991, teaching in 
Vienna, Salzburg and Graz. From 1995 to 2006   employed at the academy of science in Vienna.
Main fields of research:   Ephesos: Terrace House 2, building history; monuments of Curetes Street 
(Octagon   and Heroon of Androklos).
Main publications: monographs: Das Hadrianstor in Ephesos.   F(orschungen) i(n) E(phesos) 
XI,1 (1989); Das Hanghaus 2 in Ephesos. Die   Wohneinheit 4. Baubefund, Ausstattung, Funde  
FiE VIII, 6 (2005); Aufsätze:   Arsinoe IV, eine Schwester Kleopatras VII, Grabherrin des Oktogons 
in Ephesos ?   Ein Vorschlag. ÖJh 60, 1990, 43 - 56; Der ephesische Stadtgründer Androklos und   
(s)ein Heroon in Ephesos. ÖJh 64, 1995, 63 – 103; The processional way in the   city as a place of 
cult and burial. in: H. Koester (Hrsg.) Ephesos, Metropolis   of Asia, Harvard Theological Studies 41 
(1995) 157 – 199; „.....und verschönerte   die Stadt....“  Ein ephesischer Kaiserpriester in seinem 
Umfeld. SoSchrÖAI 27   (1997) (Hrsg.).

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