Word: curtius
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Recollections of Ernst Curtius, A. Washburn...
...valuable gift has just been made to the University Library. Mr. J. M. Sears of the class of '77, has secured the library of the great German scholar, Ernst Curtius, consisting of three thousand volumes and has presented it to the university. It is the greatest collection of archeaological researches recently sold in Germany and will be a most valuable addition to the library...
...ancient art and archaeologists had long desired the excavation of the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia, with its buildings and countless works of art. Winckelmann planned, as early as the eighteenth century, an international excavation of this celebrated site, but it was reserved for the late Professor Ernst Curtius to carry out the plan. During the years 1875-1881 the entire sanctuary and the places immediately adjacent were laid bare, at the expense ($200,000) of the German government. For four years Professor Dorpfeld was charged with the conduct of the excavations as supervising architect...
...they might see the scene of the action of the Trojan war. The geographer Strabo, however, and some other ancient writers were of a different opinion. They removed Troy to a site four miles further east. Among modern scholars, some have denied the existence of Troy altogether; others, as Curtius and Kiepert, have placed it six miles further toward the south, near Bunarbaschi...