Heinrich Schliemann was born on 6th January 1822. As a young boy he loved Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. He followed his childhood dream all his life.
He came from the family of a poor Mecklenburg pastor. He first heard Homer in Greek when he was an apprentice book seller. However, he left this career for health reasons. The ship he has hired on was wrecked somewhere near the shore of Holland and Schliemann stayed on in Amsterdam to work as an accountant, where he learned to speak English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. He learned a total of 25 languages during his lifetime. He went to work in Russia, where he set up his own trading company. He had excellent intuition and fortune smiled upon him for almost all his life, such as when his foresight and trading skills made him the richest trader in Russia during the Crimean War.
The wealth he amassed allowed him to intensively devote himself to his dream – studying the history of Ancient Greece – so he could set off in search of the fables and the Troy he admired so much. He got married a second time – this time to a Greek woman, thirty years younger than him. Eventually he found the place where, according to Homer’s narrative, the city should have stood, and in October 1871 he began excavations on Hisarlik hill. He really did discover Troy, and after searching in Mycenae he returned there. This much-derided amateur eventually found his dream.
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