ARCHAEOLOGIST

Wilhelm Dörpfeld

1853 - 1940

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Dörpfeld is the 38th most popular archaeologist (down from 33rd in 2019), the 2,147th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,030th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 38 out of 151. Before him are George Gaylord Simpson, Bogdan Filov, Robert Ballard, André Leroi-Gourhan, Ernst Curtius, and Ami Boué. After him are Henri Breuil, Paul-Émile Botta, Leonard Woolley, John O. Westwood, Hat Hor, and Yuri Knorozov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 39. Before him are Vladimir Shukhov, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, André Messager, Roberto Ferruzzi, Sophia Perovskaya, and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro. After him are Ian Hamilton, Nikolai Kibalchich, Louise Abbéma, Fritz von Below, Alexius Meinong, and Vladimir Kokovtsov. Among people deceased in 1940, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 61. Before him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Oliver Lodge, Saionji Kinmochi, Luigi Orione, Paul Nizan, and Joseph Meister. After him are Georgios Tsitas, Marie Krøyer, Giuseppe Motta, Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, Arthur Zimmermann, and Willi Münzenberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 2,148 out of 7,253. Before him are Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1772), Philipp Veit (1793), Richard Hauptmann (1899), Mathias Rust (1968), Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787), and Bruno Loerzer (1891). After him are Arp Schnitger (1648), Basil Valentine (1394), Nicholas Mercator (1620), Princess Helena of Nassau (1831), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), and Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 9. Before him are Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Isdal Woman (1940), Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Leo Frobenius (1873), Ernst Curtius (1814), and Ami Boué (1794). After him are Max von Oppenheim (1860), Adolf Furtwängler (1853), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), Halet Çambel (1916), and Hugo Winckler (1863).

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