Heinrich Schliemann

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archaeologist businessman human polyglot

Heinrich Schliemann was a 19th-century German archaeologist best known for his excavations at Troy and Mycenaean sites that helped establish the historical basis of Homeric epics.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	archaeologist → businessman → human → polyglot →
awardReceived	Order of the Redeemer →
burialPlace	First Cemetery of Athens →
causeOfDeath	complications after surgery → ear infection →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Greece → Kingdom of Prussia → United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1822-01-06 →
dateOfDeath	1890-12-26 →
describedBySource	Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie → Deutsche Biographie → Encyclopaedia Britannica →
educatedAt	Amsterdam commercial school (informal business training) →
employer	B. H. Schröder & Co. → Heinrich Schliemann & Co. (own firm) →
familyName	Schliemann →
fieldOfWork	Aegean prehistory → Homeric archaeology → Mycenaean civilization → archaeology →
genre	archaeological report →
givenName	Heinrich →
hasInfluenced	Aegean archaeology → study of Mycenaean Greece →
knownFor	discoveries at Mycenae → helping establish the archaeological basis of Homeric epics → pioneering excavations at Hisarlik →
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned	Ancient Greek → Arabic → Dutch → English → French → German → Greek → Italian → Latin → Polish → Portuguese → Russian → Spanish → Swedish → Turkish →
mannerOfDeath	natural causes →
movement	early scientific archaeology →
name	Heinrich Schliemann →
notableIdea	identification of Hisarlik as Homeric Troy →
notableWork	Ilios: City and Country of the Trojans → Mycenae: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries → Tiryns: The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns → discovery of so-called Priam's Treasure → excavations at Mycenae → excavations at Tiryns → excavations at Troy →
occupation	archaeologist → businessman → merchant →
placeOfBirth	Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin → Neubukow →
placeOfDeath	Kingdom of Italy → Naples →
religion	Lutheranism →
residence	Athens → Indianapolis → Paris → St. Petersburg →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Ekaterina Petrovna Lyshina → Sophia Engastromenos →
workLocation	Athens → Hisarlik → Mycenae → Paris → St. Petersburg → Tiryns →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Mycenae and Tiryns →	associatedWithScholar
Heinrich →	borneBy
Heinrich Schliemann ("Schliemann") →	familyName
Heinrich Schliemann →	name