Ulrich Köhler
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Ulrich Köhler (6 November 1838 Kleinneuhausen,
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach () was a 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 raised to a grand duchy in 1815 by resolutio ...
– 24 October 1903
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) was a
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Biography

He studied at the
University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is cou ...
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 The University of Strasbourg (, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. Founded in the 16th century by Johannes Sturm, it was a center of intellectual life during ...
. 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 Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin {{Germany-academic-bio-stub