Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Wilhelm Dörpfeld (26 December 1853 – 25 April 1940) was a German architect and archaeologist, a pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and precise graphical documentation of archaeological projects. He is famous for his work on Bronze Age sites around the Mediterranean, such as Tiryns and Hisarlik (the site of the legendary city of Troy), where he continued Heinrich Schliemann's excavations. Like Schliemann, Dörpfeld was an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. While the details of his claims regarding locations mentioned in Homer's writings are not considered accurate by later archaeologists, his fundamental idea that they correspond to real places is accepted. Thus, his work greatly contributed to not only scientific techniques and study of these historically significant sites but also a renewed public interest in the culture and the mythology of Ancient Greece.
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German architect
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archaeologist
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stratigraphic
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Bronze Age
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Mediterranean
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Tiryns
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Troy
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Heinrich Schliemann
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Homer
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culture
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mythology
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Ancient Greece
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Wilhelm Dörpfeld
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1853-12-26T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
26 December 1853
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1940-04-25T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
25 April 1940
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