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Wilhelm Dörpfeld

German architect and archaeologist (1853–1940).

Born December 26th, 1853 in Barmen. [ref]

Died April 25th, 1940 at 86 years old in Lefkada.

Occupations
anthropologist, archaeologist, architect, architectural historian, art historian, university teacher

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner