Speier, Hermine

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First director of the photographic archives of the Deutsches Archäogisches Institut (DAI) in Rome in 1929. Speier was appointed by Ludwig Curtius (q.v.) to develop a separate photographic archive. Under Speier, it expanded to cover entire collections and classes of monuments, such as sarcophagi and portraits. She also edited and republished Helbig's Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertumer in Rom (1963-72).

Home Country:  Germany

Sources:   Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology.  Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1996, p. 492, 493.

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