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Wilhelm Dörpfeld

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, 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 had believed that Troy was) by digging down to the bottom two Troy layers.

In the year 1886 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.

Dörpfeld is considered the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and precise graphical documentation of archaeological projects.


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