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Ute Wartenberg
Wartenberg in 2021
President of the American Numismatic Society
In office
24 October 2020 [1] – Present [1]
Preceded bySydney F. Martin
Personal details
Born
Ute Wartenberg

1963 (age 60–61)[2]
Saarbrücken[3]
NationalityGerman
OccupationNumismatist, Scholar
Known forFirst woman President of the American Numismatic Society

Ute Wartenberg (born 1963) is a numismatist from Germany and the first woman president and executive director of the American Numismatic Society, a numismatic research institution founded in 1858. She obtained her PhD in Papyrology and Classical Literature from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and later taught there.[3][4] After two decades as ANS Executive Director, she took on a research curator role, before being elected as the ANS President (2020-).

Career

From 1991 to 1998, Wartenberg was the Curator of Greek Coins at the British Museum in London. She then served as executive director of the American Numismatics Society for twenty years. In 2000, she oversaw a controversial budget-cutting and reorganization to reduce the society's deficit, which included a move of the Society's facilities to a new location in the Manhattan Financial District, followed by a second move to SoHo.[5]

In 2002, Wartenberg was appointed to the Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee of the U.S. Mint, of which she was later appointed Chairperson.[6] Wartenberg was Chairperson of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee from 2003 to 2007.

In 2017, Wartenberg was appointed on the Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force committee of the Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation.[7]

Wartenberg serves as an adjunct professor of Classics at Columbia University, and as the curator of the Amastris Collection, a private collection of Greek coins.[8]

Since 2008, she has been a Trustee of the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial in New Hampshire.[9] She was a Trustee, President and CEO of the Annie Tinker Association for Women from 2009-18. Wartenberg has served on the Committee of the International Numismatic Council since 2015. In 2019 she was elected Chairperson of ICOM International Committee for Money and Banking Museums.[4]

Wartenberg has been interviewed and quoted in numerous publications and news stories.[10][11][12][13]

Research

Wartenberg has published widely in a range research journals and numismatic publications and is a well-known editor, co-editor, and contributor for major research publications in numismatics. These include White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage with ANS Chief Curator Peter van Alfen, as well as numismatic Festschriften, including Presbeus: Studies in Ancient Coinage Presented to Richard Ashton with Andrew Meadows and ΚΑΙΡΟΣ: Contributions to Numismatics in Honor of Basil Demetriadi.[14]

Personal life

She is married to Jonathan Kagan, who also studied Classics at Oxford.[3]

Honors

Wartenberg was elected as Numismatic Ambassador in 2002. She was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2008. She was awarded the honorary award of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Geldgeschichte in Germany in 2015. In 2017 she was a Visiting Professor of the City of Wrocław, Poland.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "American Numismantic Society Governance FY2021". Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Ute Wartenberg Kagan". The British Museum. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Alumni Profile: Ute Wartenberg Kagan" (PDF). The Rhodes Trust. June 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b c "Ute Wartenberg Becomes First Female ANS President". Coins Weekly. 5 November 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  5. ^ Zuckerman, Laurence (8 January 2000). "Coin Society's Plans Upset Some Members". New York Times. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee Welcomes Two New Members". United States Mint. 6 August 2002. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  7. ^ "ICTA Names 11 to Task Force Steering Committee". February 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  8. ^ Gilkes, Paul (8 November 2019). "Wartenberg steps down after two decades as ANS executive director". Coin World. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  9. ^ "Board of Trustees". The Sait-Gaudens Memorial. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  10. ^ Kantchev, Georgi (1 November 2017). "Buyer Beware: Looted Antiquities Flood Online Sites Like Amazon, Facebook". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  11. ^ McKinley Jr., James. "Ancient Coins Returned to Greece, Ending U.S. Ordeal". New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Los decadracmas de Alejandro Magno: descifrando el misterio de la desaparición de algunas de las monedas más raras del mundo antiguo". BBC News. 15 February 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  13. ^ Schaefer, Samantha (11 March 2014). "Origin of Gold Country coins remains a mystery". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  14. ^ "Ute Wartenberg".
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