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Heinrich Schliemann - Archaeology Scientists

30-Nov-08

German archaeologist and scholar who taught himself thirteen languages. He was a highly successful businessman, and used his accumulated wealth to finance an expedition to find ancient Troy. He managed to locate the city, but his unsystematic excavation methods unfortunately destroyed and jumbled the remains of the ancient city. Nevertheless, the developments arising from his [...]

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Jacques Boucher de Perthes - Geology Scientists

30-Nov-08

Boucher de Perthes displayed activity in many other directions. For more than thirty years he filled the presidential chair of the Société d’Emulation at Abbeville, to the publications of which he contributed articles on a wide range of subjects. He was the author of several tragedies, two books of fiction, several works of travel, and a number of books on economic and philanthropic questions.

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