Heinrich Schliemann was an amateur-archaeologist.
He is often used as a good example for archaeology students of how it shouldn't be done.

Schliemann was obsessed with the stories of Homer and ancient Mediterranean civilizations.
He dedicated his life's work to unveiling the actual physical remains of the cities of Homer's epic tales.
Many refer to him as the "father of pre-Hellenistic archaeology."

In 1868, Schliemann visited sites in the Greek world, published Ithaka, der Peloponnesus und Troja in which he asserted that Hissarlik was the site of Troy, and submitted a dissertation in Ancient Greek proposing the same thesis to the University of Rostock.
In 1869, he was awarded a PhD in absentia from the University of Rostock, in Germany, for that submission.
David Traill wrote that the examiners gave him his PhD on the basis of his topographical analyses of Ithaca, which were in part simply translations of another author's work or drawn from poetic descriptions by the same author.

In 1869, Schliemann divorced his first wife, Ekaterina Petrovna Lyshin, whom he had married in 1852, and bore him three children.
 A former teacher and Athenian friend, Theokletos Vimpos, the Archbishop of Mantineia and Kynouria, helped Schliemann find someone "enthusiastic about Homer and about a rebirth of my beloved Greece...with a Greek name and a soul impassioned for learning."
 The archbishop suggested a young schoolgirl, Sophia Engastromenos, daughter of his cousin.
  They were married by the archbishop on 23 September 1869.
They later had two children, Andromache and Agamemnon Schliemann.

Schliemann was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1880.
Heinrich Schliemann was an amateur-archaeologist. He is often used as a good example for archaeology students of how it shouldn't be done.
Schliemann was obsessed with the stories of Homer and ancient Mediterranean civilizations. He dedicated his life's work to unveiling the actual physical remains of the cities of Homer's epic tales. Many refer to him as the "father of pre-Hellenistic archaeology." 
In 1868, Schliemann visited sites in the Greek world, published Ithaka, der Peloponnesus und Troja in which he asserted that Hissarlik was the site of Troy, and submitted a dissertation in Ancient Greek proposing the same thesis to the University of Rostock. In 1869, he was awarded a PhD in absentia from the University of Rostock, in Germany, for that submission. David Traill wrote that the examiners gave him his PhD on the basis of his topographical analyses of Ithaca, which were in part simply translations of another author's work or drawn from poetic descriptions by the same author.
In 1869, Schliemann divorced his first wife, Ekaterina Petrovna Lyshin, whom he had married in 1852, and bore him three children.  A former teacher and Athenian friend, Theokletos Vimpos, the Archbishop of Mantineia and Kynouria, helped Schliemann find someone "enthusiastic about Homer and about a rebirth of my beloved Greece...with a Greek name and a soul impassioned for learning."  The archbishop suggested a young schoolgirl, Sophia Engastromenos, daughter of his cousin.   They were married by the archbishop on 23 September 1869. They later had two children, Andromache and Agamemnon Schliemann.
Schliemann was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1880.
Heinrich Schliemann