Ulrich Köhler (6 November 1838 Kleinneuhausen,

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– 24 October 1903

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) was a

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archaeologist.

Biography

He studied at the

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and was appointed secretary of the

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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