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Emil Kunze (18 December 1901, in
Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
– 13 January 1994) was a German classical archaeologist. The director of the
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, he resumed excavations at
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after the Second World War. 1901 births 1994 deaths German classical scholars Archaeologists from Dresden Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Corresponding fellows of the British Academy {{Classical-archaeologist-stub