Wilhelm Dörpfeld
1853-1940
Dublin Core
Title
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
1853-1940
1853-1940
Portrait Item Type Metadata
Birthplace
Barmen
Place of Death
Leukas
Biographical Text
An architect by profession, he became the technical expert at the excavations in Olympia (1877-1881), Director of the German Archaeolog. School in Athens 1881-1907. In 1882 he collaborated with H. Schliemann at the excavations in Troy. Thereafter his life was devoted to excavations. The most noted of these apart from Troy and Pergamon (1890-1901) were Corfu (1913), Mycenae, Tiryns, Crete, Pylos, Leukas, which he identified with Ithaca.
Nationality
German
Source
Mrs. C. Dörpfeld, his daughter-in-law, Berlin.
Further Resources
Citation
“Wilhelm Dörpfeld
1853-1940,” Alfred Gudeman's Imagines Philologorum, 2nd Edition, accessed April 16, 2024, https://imaginesphilologorum.net/items/show/150.
1853-1940,” Alfred Gudeman's Imagines Philologorum, 2nd Edition, accessed April 16, 2024, https://imaginesphilologorum.net/items/show/150.