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Heinrich Schliemann
January 6, 1822 - December 26, 1890
Nationality: German
Category: Scientist
Subcategory: German Scientist

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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