German businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890)
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He made his fortune in trade, then turned a spade on Turkey convinced Homer's Troy was real. The ruins he unearthed proved epic poetry could hide actual cities — and started a fight over whether he'd dug up history or destroyed it.
Heinrich Schliemann was born in Germany on 6 January 1822 and built wealth as a businessman before pivoting to archaeology with a single fixation: that the places in Homer's Iliad were not myth but geography. He excavated at Hisarlık in Turkey, now accepted as the site of Troy, and later at Mycenae and Tiryns, lending material weight to the idea that the Trojan War had some root in real events. But his methods carved through nine layers of remains, and critics charged him with destroying the very artefacts — including the stratum thought to be Homeric Troy — that might have told the clearer st…
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The Trojans were, therefore, an Aryan race, as is clear from the evidence of symbols engraved on terracotta discs.
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.
Minna showed me the greatest sympathy and entered into all my vast plans for the future. ...
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