Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936) – His rocky road to archaeology
Theodor Wiegand – the famous excavator of Priene, Miletus and Didyma – began his career under unfavourable auspices. When he came to the DAI Athens, he was uncertain about his […]
Kekulé, Reinhard
Kekulé, Reinhard
The astronomer Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825-1884) and the DAI Athens
Among the holdings of the DAI Athens archive, there is a fragmented personal diary whose author had not been identified until recently, as the handwriting, a hastily written cursive script […]
Otto Lüders (1844 – 1912) – the first director of the DAI Athens
When the Athens department of the DAI was formally founded in 1874, the philologist-turned-diplomat Otto Lüders was the first person to be appointed as its director, at the time called […]
