Georg Ferdinand Dümmler (February 10, 1859 - November 15, 1896) was a German classical philologist and archaeologist who was a native of Halle an der Saale. He was the son of historian

Historian

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 Ernst Ludwig Dümmler (1830-1902).

He was a student at the Universities of Halle, Strassburg

University of Strasbourg

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 and Bonn

University of Bonn

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. At Strassburg he studied under Adolf Michaelis

Adolf Michaelis

Adolf Michaelis was a German classical scholar, a professor of art history at the University of Strasbourg from 1872, who helped establish the connoisseurship of Ancient Greek sculpture and Roman sculpture on their modern footing...

 (1835-1910), and in Bonn

Bonn

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 he had as instructors Franz Bücheler

Franz Bücheler

Franz Bücheler was a German classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg, and educated at Bonn.He held professorships successively at Freiburg , Greifswald , and Bonn , and in 1878 became joint-editor of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie...

 (1837-1908), Hermann Usener

Hermann Usener

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 (1834-1905) and Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz

Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz

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 (1839-1911). In 1882 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the philosopher Antisthenes

Antisthenes

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.

Following graduation he undertook archaeological research excursions through Italy, Greece, Cyprus and the Aegean Islands

Aegean Islands

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. From 1887 to 1890 he was a lecturer at the University of Giessen

University of Giessen

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, and afterwards was a professor of philology and archaeology at the University of Basel

University of Basel

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. Dümmler died of an illness in Basel

Basel

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on November 15, 1896 at the age of 37.