Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Heinrich Schliemann

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German scientist Heinrich Schliemann.

Last updated on November 24, 2024.

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.

German - Scientist | January 6, 1822 - December 26, 1890

Source: Wikipedia

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

Heinrich Schliemann

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.

Heinrich Schliemann