Heinrich Schliemann Quotes
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.
Schliemann, Heinrich. Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans. Harper & Brothers, 1881, p. 14.
Heinrich Schliemann was a German businessman and pioneer in the field of archaeology. He 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. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad reflects historical events. Schliemann's excavation of nine levels of archaeological remains with dynamite has been criticized as destructive of significant historical artifacts, including the level that is believed to be the historical Troy.