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Wilhelm Dörpfeld (or
Doerpfeld) (
26 December 1853 –
25 April 1940) was a
German architect, best known for his contributions to classical
archaeology.
Dörpfeld was born in
Barmen,
Wuppertal. In
1877 he became an assistant at the
Olympia excavations under Richard Bohn,
Friedrich Adler (whose daughter he later married), and
Ernst Curtius. In
1882 he joined
Heinrich Schliemann, who was then excavating
Troy. He continued to work with Schliemann in
Tiryns (
1884–
1885), took part in the
Acropolis excavations (
1885–
1890), the
Pergamon excavations (
1900–
1913, with
Alexander Conze), and in the
1931 excavations in the
Agora of
Athens.
Dörpfeld excavated
Troy in the second campaign (1893–1894). He believed that
Heinrich Schliemann had destroyed parts of the upper layers (where he'd believed that Troy was) by digging down to the bottom two Troy layers.
In the year 1896 Dörpfeld founded the
German School of Athens, which is also named after him "Dörpfeld Gymnasium".
From
1887 to
1912 he was the director of the German Archaeological Institute in Athens. He died on
25 April 1940 in
Lefkada and he's buried at
Nydri, where he believed that
Odysseus's palace is located.
Dörpfeld is considered the pioneer of
stratigraphic excavation and precise graphical documentation of archaeological projects.
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