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...Hanfmann leaves his wife Ilse; daughters Vera Weisskopf of Huntsville, Ala., and Ruth Higgins of Hammondsport, N.Y.; and brothers Alexander and Andrew Hanfmann of Pennsylvania...
...Hanfmann was born in the Soviet Union on November 20, 1911, and received a doctorate summa cum laude in classical philology from the University of Berlin in 1934. He emigrated to the United States the same year...
Henrichs also said that Hanfmann was "a great magnet who attracted huge numbers of students...
...Hanfmann is best known for his leadership of the archaeological excavations at Sardis in western Turkey, where he led the Harvard-Cornell archaeological expedition from 1958 to 1978. He remained senior editor and adviser for this expedition until his death...
...Hanfmann and his colleagues also found evidence to verify the legend that Sardis, capital of the ancient Lydian kingdom under King Croesus, was seized by Greek veterans of the Trojan War in the 12th century...