Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth
Heinrich Schliemann
* 1822 in Neubukow/Germany
+ 1890 in Naples/Italy
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Heinrich Schliemann was a German businessman and a pioneer in the field of archaeology.
He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer
and an archaeological excavator of Hisarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy,
along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns.
2021 J. Giesen