Sabine Ladstätter

Sabine Ladstätter (* 22 November 1968; † 3 June 2024) was an Austrian classical archaeologist.

From 2001 to 2007, Ladstätter was Deputy Managing Director of the Institute for the Cultural History of the Ancient World at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

In October 2009, Science Minister Johannes Hahn appointed Ladstätter as the new director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), which was founded in 1898, succeeding Johannes Koder, who had headed the institute on an interim basis since 2007, making her the first woman to hold this position.

Ladstätter lectured at the University of Vienna since 2001, where she habilitated in Classical Archaeology in 2007.

Sabine Ladstätter died after a long illness in June 2024 at the age of 55 and was buried in Tainach.

Sabine Ladstätter at the launch of the international Ephesus Foundation, 2010
Vienna University, until 2023 also the location of the ÖAI (2005)