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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 76,322 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Dörpfeld is the 33rd most popular archaeologist (down from 30th in 2019), the 1,990th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,000th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 33 out of 104. Before him are Paul Pelliot, Leonard Woolley, Othniel Charles Marsh, Robert Ballard, Neferkare Tereru, and Ami Boué. After him are George Gaylord Simpson, André Leroi-Gourhan, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Max Mallowan, Yuri Knorozov, and Henri Breuil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 35. Before him are Flinders Petrie, Louise Abbéma, Vladimir Shukhov, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, and Sophia Perovskaya. After him are Roberto Ferruzzi, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Antonio Salandra, Alexius Meinong, Fritz von Below, and Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka. Among people deceased in 1940, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 55. Before him are Jesse Livermore, Lewis Hine, Joseph Meister, Paul Nizan, Anton Korošec, and Arthur Zimmermann. After him are Alfred Loisy, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, Marie Krøyer, and Jehan Alain.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Dörpfeld ranks 1,990 out of 6,142. Before him are Carl Oberg (1897), Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1855), Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764), Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony (1782), Andreas Cellarius (1596), and John II, Duke of Bavaria (1341). After him are Karl Ernst (1904), Paul Gerhardt (1607), Lotte Reiniger (1899), William, Prince of Hohenzollern (1864), Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1688), and Gershon Kingsley (1922).

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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 Ami Boué (1794). After him are Ernst Curtius (1814), Isdal Woman (1940), Halet Çambel (1916), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Ernst Herzfeld (1879), and Rudolf Wagner (1805).

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