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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Dörpfeld has received more than 79,477 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Wilhelm Dörpfeld is the 33rd most popular archaeologist, the 2,030th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,988th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 33 out of 151. Before him are Bogdan Filov, Paul Pelliot, Yuri Knorozov, Othniel Charles Marsh, Isdal Woman, and Robert Ballard. After him are Hat Hor, André Leroi-Gourhan, George Smith, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, and Gustaf Kossinna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 38. Before him are Francesco Filippini, Sophia Perovskaya, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Fritz von Below, Vladimir Shukhov, and Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka. After him are Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Elihu Thomson, Roberto Ferruzzi, Damat Ferid Pasha, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, and Alexius Meinong. Among people deceased in 1940, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 57. Before him are Joseph Meister, Anton Korošec, Arthur Zimmermann, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Jan Kubelík, and Prince Wilhelm of Prussia. After him are Édouard Branly, Jesse Livermore, Nedo Nadi, Lewis Hine, Marie Krøyer, and Willi Münzenberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 2,030 out of 7,253. Before him are William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria (1386), Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1778), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), and Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758). After him are Handrij Zejler (1804), Rudolph Goclenius (1547), Anna of Brandenburg (1487), Kai Hansen (1963), Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (1244), and Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 7. Before him are Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Theodor Mommsen (1817), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Leo Frobenius (1873), and Isdal Woman (1940). After him are Ernst Curtius (1814), Ami Boué (1794), Max von Oppenheim (1860), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Adolf Furtwängler (1853), and Halet Çambel (1916).

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