Wilhelm König (born in
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) was an
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archaeologist
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and
painter
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A painter by profession, in 1931, König was elected assistant to the German leader of the
Baghdad Antiquity Administration with the title of a "Direktor". At the excavation of a
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settlement in modern day
Khujut Rabu
Khujut Rabu' ( ar, خوجوت رابه) is a local area to the South-East of Baghdad, Iraq, near the town of the present-day Salman Pak. Also Khujut Rabua. Until 637 AD, this was the location of Ctesiphon and Seleucia on the Tigris. This area was ...
(near
Baghdad
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,
Iraq
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), he discovered the alleged
Baghdad Battery
The Baghdad Battery is the name given to a set of three artifacts which were found together: a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron. It was discovered in present-day Khujut Rabu, Iraq in 1936, close to the metropolis of Ctesiphon, the ...
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In February 1939, he returned to Vienna, due to blood poisoning, where he published a book ''Im verlorenen Paradies. Neun Jahre Irak''.
Controversy
In March 2012, Professor Elizabeth Stone, of
Stony Brook University
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, an expert on Iraqi archaeology, returning from one of the first archaeological expeditions in Iraq since 20 years, stated that she does not know a single archaeologist, who believed that this was a "''real'' battery".
[Prof. Stone's statement, listed as a 'red flag' amon]
5 red flags why it was not a battery
(with sources, on Archaeology Fantasies website)
Works
''Neun Jahre Irak''Brünn, Münster, Wien 1940
Work
Plaster castings
The plaster castings of objects from the Iraq museum, which are exhibited in the "Vorderasiatisches Museum" in Berlin, were made by König.
Publications
* ''Ein galvanisches Element aus der Partherzeit?'' In: ''
Forschungen und Fortschritte( de).'' Band 14, 1936, S. 8–9.
* ''Im verlorenen Paradies. Neun Jahre Irak.'' Rohrer, Baden bei Wien u. a. 1940 (Buchbesprechung von Käte Fück: ''König: Im verlorenen Paradies. Neun Jahre Irak.'' In: ''Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft.'' Band 95
eue Folge Band 20 Nr. 3/4, 1941, S. 441 f.
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Literature
* Arnold Nöldeke
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( de): ''Briefe aus Uruk
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-Warka, 1931–1939.'' Hrsg. von Margarete van Ess
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( de) und Elisabeth Weber-Nöldeke. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2008, , S. 331.
* Erich Zehren: ''Die biblischen Hügel: zur Geschichte der Archäeologie.''Hrsg. von F. A. Herbig( de), 1961, S. 88, 124, 157, u.v.m.
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