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Barbara Deppert-Lippitz (née Lippitz; 3 October 1939 - 18 July 2023) was a German classical archeologist and expert for roman antiquities and the return of stolen art and artefacts.

Early Life and Education

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Barbara Deppert was born in Kublitz, Pomerania, Prussia (now Kobylnica, Poland) in 1939 as the second child of Kurt Lippitz, a farmer and hunter, and his wife Johanna (née Lange). The family was forced to flee their native village in 1945 at the approach of the Red Army. Lippitz and her family then spent two years in a refugee camp in Denmark before moving to Frankfurt.

Having completed her secondary education she began studying classical archeology and ancient history at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1961. She specialised in greco-roman antique jewellery, and successfully defended her doctoral dissertation Römischer Goldschmuck des ersten und zweiten Jahrhunderts n. Chr. nach datierten Funden (litt. Roman golden jewellery in the first and second centuries AD according to dated findings).

In 1991, following a one-year specialisation course at the




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