Theodor Wiegand (1864 - 1936) - "One of the most famous German Archaeologists" (Wiki). See
|Acropolis||In 1894 he worked under Wilhelm Dörpfeld at the excavation of the Athenian Acropolis. (Wiki). Published "Die archaische Poros-Architektur der Akropolis zu Athen", German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, 1904|
|Baalbek||"He also finished the excavations at Baalbek in Lebanon and published the results." (Wiki) "Baalbek : Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen in den Jahren" 1898 bis 1905, (as editor)|
|Museumsinsel (Museum Island)||Director of Antiquities on Berlin (1912-30) at the time of building of the Pergamon Museum|
|Pergamon||"He discovered, in 1927, the arsenals of the castle at the acropolis and excavated the large sanctuary of Asklepios outside the city." (Wiki). Published "Bericht über die Ausgrabungen in Pergamon" 1927, Berlin|
|Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos||The Heraion "the full extent of the third temple's foundations were not revealed until Theodor Wiegand's campaign of 1910-14" (Wiki)|
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