National Geographic: How Heinrich Schliemann Rediscovered Troy—and Then Destroyed It
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Heinrich Schliemann
Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann was a German businessman and an influential archeologist. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological excavator of Hisarlık, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad reflects historical events. Schliema…
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business · German businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890) · businessperson · art historian · archaeologist · polyglot · merchant · traveler · entrepreneur · writer · also Heinrich Schliemann, Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann, Schliemann
Born 6 January 1822 · Died 26 December 1890 · Q57106
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
GEO: Heinrich Schliemann: der Mythenjäger
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2022· 5 entries
Berliner Zeitung: Vom armen Dorfkind zum Weltbürger: Das wilde Leben des Heinrich Schliemann
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MutualArt.com: Heinrich Schliemann
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Leipziger Volkszeitung: Der Selfmademan: Vor 200 Jahren wurde der Archäologe Heinrich Schliemann geboren
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Süddeutsche Zeitung: Heinrich Schliemann: Vor 200 Jahren wurde der Archäologe geboren
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Süddeutsche Zeitung: 200 Jahre Heinrich Schliemann: Neue Biografie von Frank Vorpahl
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2020· 1 entry
spektrum.de: Heinrich Schliemann: Archäologe, Visionär und Influencer
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2010· 1 entry
ZEIT: Heinrich Schliemann: Der Traum von Troja
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1994· 1 entry
The museum admitted the collection was in their possession
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1972· 1 entry
Professor William Calder of the University of Colorado, speaking at a commemoration of Schliemann's birthday, claimed that he had uncovered several possible problems in Schliemann's work
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1941· 1 entry
The treasure was moved to the Flakturm located at the Berlin Zoological Garden, called the Zoo Tower
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1939· 1 entry
All exhibits were packed and stored in the museum basement, then moved to the Prussian State Bank vault in January 1941
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1900· 1 entry
And stepped in to take charge of the project, which was then still in its infancy
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1890· 2 entries
Died 1890-12-26.
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“From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.”
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1885· 1 entry
Won Royal Gold Medal (1885).
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1884· 1 entry
An excavation of Tiryns with Wilhelm Dörpfeld, and from 1889 to 1890 a seventh and eighth excavation at Troy, also with Dörpfeld
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1881· 2 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Berlin (1881).
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His collections ended up in Berlin, housed first in the Ethnographic Museum, and then the Museum for Pre- and Early History, until the start of WWII
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1880· 1 entry
Schliemann began excavation of the Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenus (Boeotia)
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1876· 2 entries
Began digging at Mycenae, under the supervision of Panagiotis Stamatakis, a Greek archaeologist attached to the excavation as a condition of Schliemann's permit
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To continue excavation, Schliemann did not reopen the dig site at Troy until 1878–1879, after another excavation in Ithaca designed to locate a site mentioned in the Odyssey
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1874· 2 entries
Schliemann also initiated and sponsored the removal of medieval edifices from the Acropolis of Athens, including the great Frankish Tower
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Schliemann published Troy and Its Remains
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1872· 1 entry
Frank Calvert could see from the pottery that Troy II had to be hundreds of years too early to be the Troy of the Trojan War, a point finally proven by the discovery of Mycenaean pottery in Troy VI in 1890
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1870· 1 entry
Schliemann began digging a trench at Hissarlik, and by 1873 had discovered nine buried cities
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1869· 2 entries
Bought property and settled in Indianapolis for about three months to take advantage of Indiana's liberal divorce laws, although he obtained the divorce by lying about his residency in the U
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Was awarded a PhD in absentia from the university for that submission
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1868· 2 entries
Schliemann visited sites in the Greek world, and published his second book Ithaka, der Peloponnesus und Troja in which he described ancient sites in Greece and the Ottoman Empire and asserted that Hissarlik was the site
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Studied at University of Paris (1866–1868).
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1850· 1 entry
Learned of the death of his brother, Ludwig, who had become wealthy as a speculator in the California gold fields
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1846· 1 entry
The firm sent him as a General Agent to St
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1841· 1 entry
Schliemann moved to Hamburg and became a cabin boy on the Dorothea, a brig bound for Venezuela
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1831· 1 entry
When Heinrich was nine years old, and his father sent Heinrich to live with his uncle Friedrich Schliemann, also a pastor
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1822· 1 entry
Born 1822-01-06.
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