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Heinrich Schliemann
* 1822 in Neubukow/Germany
+ 1890 in Naples/Italy
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