Book Biography of Shliman

Any problem has a solution to Schliman Henry. Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann, January 6, Neubukov, Meklenburg-Shweer-December 26, Naples-German entrepreneur and self-taught archaeologist, one of the founders of field archeology.

He became famous for pioneering finds in Asia Minor, on the site of the ancient Troy, as well as on the Peloponnese - in the Mycenae, Tirinf and the Boeotian Orkhomen, the discoverer of the Mycenaean culture. Since the year, he was a full member of the French Association for the promotion of the study of Greece, and since the year he was an honorary member of the Berlin Society of Ethnology and Ancient History and the actual member of the Society of Fans of Natural Science, Anthropology and Ethnography of Moscow.

He took at least 15 languages, including the main European ones, including his native Lower Semetsky, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, ancient Greek and Latin, diaries often kept in the language of the country in which he was currently located. Schliemann published several books on travel and archeology, in the year, in the year, he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Rostock.

Born in the family of a poor rural pastor, began a career as a merchant, thanks to the abilities of Polyglot in the year, he became a representative of the Dutch trading company in St. Petersburg. Having accepted Russian citizenship in the year, mainly lived in Russia, having been a great fortune, including as a result of the California gold fever and the Crimean war.

Having made a round -the -world trip in the years, he decided to radically change his life. Since the year, he became a student at the University of Paris, attending classes for two semesters, and became interested in the problem of the existence of Troy and the historicity of the Homeric epic. In the year, he decided to connect a further life with Greece. In the year he became a US citizen, where he divorced his Russian wife; In the same year, he married the Greek woman Sofia Engasten and settled in Athens.

In -, -, and spent the years in three per year, discovered the “treasure of Priam”, opened royal tombs in the mycenae in the year, dug up the Orkhomen in the years, and Tirinf, together with V., attempts to organize excavations on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus and were unsuccessful in Crete. His findings caused numerous disputes during his lifetime, since Schliemann did not immediately begin to pay attention to the academic career and reputation in the scientific world, and the conscious mythologization of the biography and the tendency to self -promotion led to the fact that the actual merits of Shliman were evaluated only after his death.