Word: schliemann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Sophie Engastromenos Schliemann, 80, archaeologist, relict of the late great Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann who uncovered an ancient town which he claimed to be Troy; in Athens. After 15 years of woe with his first wife, whom he divorced, Schliemann asked the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens to pick a Greek bride for him, "of the true Greek type, black-haired and, if possible, beautiful." The Archbishop picked Sophie, 16, who lived happily with Schliemann for 21 years until his death...
Other books: Bismarck, Lincoln, Schliemann (TIME, June...
...Schliemann discovered too much at Troy; not one stratum but several. The level at which he found the treasure he naturally wanted to believe was the Homeric city, but scholars, still disagreeing among themselves, now think Schliemann was probably wrong. A richer find-richest of all archeological finds-Schliemann made four years later, at Mycenae, Greece. His excavations at the ancient sites of Orchomenos and Tiryns were only slightly less fortunate...
...little man with a big head and weak eyes, Schliemann's chief characteristic was his tireless energy. No cloistered scholar but a man of big affairs, he had the unabashed eccentricities of a millionaire. He "instructed every one on the healthy way to live, and if he saw pale women, he would say without ceremony: 'Why don't you take walks?' and to men with red necks: 'Why don't you bathe? You'll get apoplexy. Go for walks! Bathe!' " When he became displeased with Gladstone, "he took [Gladstone's] portrait...
Thinks Biographer Ludwig: Schliemann "is an outstanding example of my repeated contention that the enlightened amateur beats the solid expert every time. ... If Schliemann had at the beginning known the state of Homeric research ... he would have regarded the Trojan War as a legend, and would have spent neither time nor ambition nor money on it. He succeeded purely because he was not an archeologist...