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Ulrich Köhler (6 November 1838 Kleinneuhausen,
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (german: Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) was a historical German state, created as a duchy in 1809 by the merger of the Ernestine duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been in personal union since 1741. It was rai ...
– 24 October 1903
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) was a
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archaeologist.


Biography

He studied at the
University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...
and was appointed secretary of the
Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...
n embassy at
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(1865) and later was made professor of archaeology at the University of Strassburg. He was governor of the newly founded Archaeological Institute at Athens (1875) and was appointed professor of ancient history at Berlin (1886). His principal work is the second volume of ''Corpus inscriptionum atticarum'' (Berlin 1877-95), which contains the inscriptions from the time of the Archon Euclides to
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. Important also is his ''Urkunden und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des delisch-attischen Bundes'' (Berlin 1870).


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* 1838 births 1903 deaths People from Sömmerda (district) People from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Archaeologists from Thuringia University of Jena alumni University of Strasbourg faculty Humboldt University of Berlin faculty {{Germany-academic-bio-stub