Erika Eschebach (born 1954) is a German woman historian and since 1 March 2010 director of the

Dresden City Museum Dresden City Museum (german: link=no, Stadtmuseum Dresden) is the central city museum for the German city of Dresden. Its displays tell the 800-year story of the city and is the largest and most important of the Dresden State Museums (''Städtis ...

Life

Born in

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, Eschebach is the daughter of the architect,

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and building researcher . After studying history,

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and

classical archaeology Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, she worked at the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig from 1992 to 2010 and from 2008 to 2010 as its provisional director. On 1 March 2010, Eschebach took over as director of the Stadtmuseum in Dresden.

Publications

as (co-)editor: * with : ''Dresdner Porzellan. Mythos–Repräsentation–Inspiration.'' Katalog zur Ausstellung im Stadtmuseum Dresden 2012, . * with Andrea Rudolph: ''Die Schuchs. Eine Künstlerfamilie in Dresden.''''Die Schuchs : eine Künstlerfamilie in Dresden : [exhibition, Stadtmuseum Dresden, from may 10 to september 28, 2014]''
on WorldCat Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2014, . as co-author: * , among others (ed.): ' – 8. bis 18. Jahrhundert. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, . * Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, (ed.): ''Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon'' – 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1996, . * Städtisches Museum Braunschweig and Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (ed.): ''Deutsche Kunst 1933–1945 in Braunschweig. Kunst im Nationalsozialismus. Katalog der Ausstellung vom 16. April – 2. Juli 2000''. Verlag Olms, Hildesheim u. a. 2000,

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Veröffentlichungen von Erika Eschebach
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