Margarete Bieber (31 July 1879 – 25 February 1978) was a Jewish[1] German-American art historian, classical archaeologist and professor.

When the First World War broke out, Bieber returned to Germany and worked as a Red Cross worker.

From Easter 1915, she taught seminars and ran the Archaeological Institute at the University of Berlin for her former instructor Georg Loeschcke, who was ill. After he died in November 1915, a successor was appointed and she was not allowed to continue teaching as women could not receive habilitation at the time.

Bieber continued to teach private courses out of her home, counting Dora and Erwin Panofsky among her students.

[7] After several unsuccessful attempts, her postdoctoral was finally approved in 1919 and she became an associate professor in classical archaeology at the University of Giessen.

She, Ingeborg and her governess Katharina Freytag left Germany for England where Bieber became an honorary fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.

[citation needed] Bieber left for the United States in 1934 at the invitation of Barnard College, where she was a lecturer.

It became a foundational text for students of the ancient theaters of Greece and Rome, delving into the nuances of production and the practicalities of staging.