The son of a poor Protestant minister, he nonetheless learned all the major European languages plus ancient Greek, and retired at age 41 after amassing a fortune in foreign trade to move to Greece and pursue his passion for Homer.
The son of a poor Protestant minister, he nonetheless learned all the major European languages plus ancient Greek, and retired at age 41 after amassing a fortune in foreign trade to move to Greece and pursue his passion for Homer. He effectively discovered the pre-Classical Greek civilization in his excavations at Orchomenos, Marathon, Tiryns, and Mycenae. FTP, name this German archaeologist, most famous for his excavations at Hissarlik, Turkey.
The son of a poor Protestant minister, he nonetheless learned all the major European languages plus ancient Greek, and retired at age 41 after amassing a fortune in foreign trade to move to Greece and pursue his passion for Homer.
Heinrich {Schliemann}