45 Facts About Heinrich Schliemann

Heinrich Schliemann was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological excavator of Hisarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns.

Heinrich Schliemann's work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad reflects historical events.

Heinrich Schliemann's mother died in 1831, when Heinrich was nine years old, and his father sent Heinrich to live with his uncle Friedrich Schliemann, a pastor.

Heinrich Schliemann claimed that at the age of 7 he had declared he would one day excavate the city of Troy.

Heinrich Schliemann had to transfer to the Realschule after his father was accused of embezzling church funds and made his exams in 1836.

At age 14, after leaving Realschule, Heinrich Schliemann became an apprentice at Herr Holtz's grocery in Furstenberg.

Heinrich Schliemann later said that his passion for Homer was born when he heard a drunken miller reciting it at the grocer's.

Heinrich Schliemann laboured for five years until he was forced to leave because he hurt his chest, lifting a heavy barrel and coughing up blood.

In 1841, Heinrich Schliemann moved to Hamburg and became a cabin boy on the Dorothea, a brig bound for Venezuela.

Heinrich Schliemann became a messenger, office attendant, and later, a bookkeeper in Amsterdam.

Heinrich Schliemann learned Russian and Greek, employing a system that he used his entire life to learn languages; Schliemann claimed that it took him six weeks to learn a language and wrote his diary in the language of whatever country he happened to be in.

Heinrich Schliemann's ability with languages was an important part of his career as a businessman in the importing trade.

Heinrich Schliemann went to California in early 1851 and started a bank in Sacramento buying and reselling over a million dollars' worth of gold dust in just six months.

Heinrich Schliemann published what he said was an eyewitness account of the San Francisco Fire of 1851, which he said was in June although it took place in May At the time he was in Sacramento and used the report of the fire in the Sacramento Daily Journal to write his report.

Heinrich Schliemann next made a good profit trading in indigo dye.

Heinrich Schliemann was obsessed with the stories of Homer and ancient Mediterranean civilizations.

Heinrich Schliemann dedicated the second part of his life to unveiling the actual physical remains of the cities of Homer's epic tales.

In 1868, Heinrich Schliemann visited sites in the Greek world, and published his second book Ithaka, der Peloponnesus und Troja in which he described ancient sites in Greece and the Ottoman Empire and asserted that Hissarlik was the site of Troy.

Heinrich Schliemann submitted this book as a dissertation to the University of Rostock.

Heinrich Schliemann was an honorary member of the Society of Antiquaries of London and elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1880.

Heinrich Schliemann was at first sceptical about the identification of Hissarlik with Troy but was persuaded by Calvert.

In 1870, Heinrich Schliemann began digging a trench at Hissarlik, and by 1873 had discovered nine buried cities.

Heinrich Schliemann found pure copper and metal molds as well as a lot of other metal tools, cutlery, shields, and vases which were found at around 28 to.

Heinrich Schliemann later wrote that he had seen the gold glinting in the dirt and dismissed the workmen so that he and Sophia could excavate it themselves; they removed it in her shawl.

However, Heinrich Schliemann's oft-repeated story of the treasure being carried by Sophia in her shawl was untrue.

Heinrich Schliemann later admitted fabricating it; at the time of the discovery, Sophia was in fact with her family in Athens, following the death of her father.

Heinrich Schliemann smuggled the treasure out of the Ottoman Empire into Greece.

Heinrich Schliemann ended up sending 50,000 gold francs to the Constantinople Imperial Museum, and got permission for further excavations at Hissarlik.

In 1880 Heinrich Schliemann began excavation of the Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenus.

From 1882 to 1883 Heinrich Schliemann made a sixth excavation at Troy, in 1884 an excavation of Tiryns with Wilhelm Dorpfeld, and from 1889 to 1890 a seventh and eighth excavation at Troy, with Dorpfeld.

Heinrich Schliemann was the niece of one of his wealthy friends in St Petersburg and they had three children; a son, Sergey, and two daughters, Natalya and Nadezhda.

Heinrich Schliemann spent a month studying at the Sorbonne in 1866 while moving his assets from St Petersburg to Paris to invest in real estate.

Heinrich Schliemann asked his wife to join him, but she refused.

Heinrich Schliemann moved to Athens as soon as an Indiana court granted him the divorce and married again two months later.

On 1 August 1890, Heinrich Schliemann returned reluctantly to Athens, and in November travelled to Halle, where his chronic ear infection was operated upon, on 13 November.

Too sick to make the boat ride from Naples to Greece, Heinrich Schliemann remained in Naples but managed to make a journey to the ruins of Pompeii.

Heinrich Schliemann's corpse was then transported by friends to the First Cemetery in Athens.

The frieze circling the outside of the mausoleum shows Heinrich Schliemann conducting the excavations at Mycenae and other sites.

Heinrich Schliemann had planned to excavate at Knossos but died before fulfilling that dream.

Heinrich Schliemann's excavations were condemned by later archaeologists as having destroyed the main layers of the real Troy.

In 1972, Professor William Calder of the University of Colorado, speaking at a commemoration of Heinrich Schliemann's birthday, claimed that he had uncovered several possible problems in Heinrich Schliemann's work.

In northwestern Turkey, Heinrich Schliemann excavated the site believed to be Troy in 1870.

Heinrich Schliemann was a German adventurer and con-man who took sole credit for the discovery, even though he was digging at the site, called Hisarlik, at the behest of British archaeologist Frank Calvert.

German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was the first to explore the Mound of Troy in the 1870s.

In 1874, Heinrich Schliemann initiated and sponsored the removal of medieval edifices from the Acropolis of Athens, including the great Frankish Tower.