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Heinrich Schliemann [1822-1890] German

Rank: 104
Scientist

Heinrich Schliemann was a German businessman and a pioneer in the field of archaeology. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer.

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No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.		101
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.		102
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.		103

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