Prof. Wilhelm Dörpfeld

WE regret to record the death of Prof. Wilhelm Dorpfeld on April 26, at the age of eighty-six. Born and educated at Barmen near Dusseldorf, Wilhelm Dorpfeld studied architecture in Berlin, and in 1877 was called from the Prussian Board of Works to be architectural assistant to Dr. Adler at the excavations of the German Archaeological Institute at Olympia, and in 1878 he became technical director. From Olympia he went to help Schliemann at Hissar-lik, and collaborated in his publications "Troy" (1884) and "Tiryns" (1886). In 1883 he had married Adler's daughter, and in 1886 he became architectural adviser to the German School in Athens; and in 1887 its 'first secretary', that is, director. After Schliemann's death in December 1890 he continued his work at Hissarlik, revealing the significance of the 'Sixth City' in his "Troja 1893", and reviewing the whole series of discoveries in "Troja und Ilion" (1902).