‘…daß es keinen so gelehrten und tüchtigen Mann gibt als Sie’: The Heinrich Schliemann-Wilhelm Dörpfeld correspondance, 1879-1890

Stefanie A. H. Kennell Mitteleilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Athenische Mitteilungen 125 (2010) [2013]: 257-308

Abstract

Previous studies of the relationship between Wilhelm Dörpfeld and Heinrich Schliemann, as well as the influence each exerted upon the other, have been based largely on the editions of Ernst Meyer (Briefwechsel II has only seven letters by Dörpfeld and eight from Schliemann), remarks contained in the Herrmann – Maaß edition of the Schliemann -Virchow correspondence, and some letters by Dörpfeld to his father-in-law Friedrich Adler (Archives, DAI Berlin). The Gennadius Library in Athens, however, holds more than 130 letters by Dörpfeld from the years 1879 and 1881 -1889, as well as copies of more than 70 letters from Schliemann to Dörpfeld 1881-1890. This study of the letters, many of them still unpublished, illuminates the nature and development of the historically significant Dörpfeld – Schliemann collaboration appreciably on both the personal and the professional levels, not least with regard to Dörpfeld’s increasing responsibilities at the DAI and Schliemann’s role in providing the Athens Institute with a permanent home.