Editing Heinrich Schliemann (section)

==Early life and education==
Schliemann was born 6 January 1822, in [[Neubukow]], [[Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Mecklenburg-Schwerin]] (part of the [[German Confederation]]) to Luise Therese Sophie Schliemann and Ernst Schliemann, a Lutheran [[Minister (Christianity)|minister]]. He was the fifth of nine children. The family moved to [[Ankershagen]] in summer 1823. Their second home houses the [[Heinrich Schliemann Museum]] today.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cornelia Maué |date=n.d. |title=website of schliemann-museum Ankershagen |url=http://www.schliemann-museum.de/hsm/anliegen.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427230405/https://www.schliemann-museum.de/hsm/anliegen.html |archive-date=27 April 2018 |publisher=Schliemann-museum.de |language=de}}</ref>

Heinrich's father was a poor pastor. His mother died in 1831, when Heinrich was nine years old, and his father sent Heinrich to live with his uncle Friedrich Schliemann, also a pastor. When he was eleven years old, his father paid for his enrollment in the [[Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasium]] (grammar school) at [[Neustrelitz]], but he had to leave it after three months. Heinrich's interest in history was initially encouraged by his father, who had schooled him in the tales of the [[Iliad]] and the [[Odyssey]] and had given him a copy of Ludwig Jerrer's ''Illustrated History of the World'' for Christmas in 1829. Schliemann claimed that at the age of 7 he had declared he would one day excavate the city of [[Troy]].<ref name="Ilios">{{cite book |last = Schliemann |first = Heinrich |title = Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans: the Results of Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Troy and Through the Troad in the Years 1871-72-73-78-79; Including an Autobiography of the Author|url = https://archive.org/details/cu31924028248593 | publisher= [[Harper (publisher)#Harper & Brothers (1833–1962)|Harper & Brothers]] |year = 1881| page= 3}}</ref><ref name="Cottrell">{{cite book |last= Cottrell |first= Leonard |author-link= Leonard Cottrell| title= The Bull of Minos: The discoveries of Schliemann and Evans| publisher= [[George Bell & Sons#History|Bell & Hyman Ltd]] |year = 1984| isbn= 978-0-7135-2432-1| page= 36}}</ref>

Heinrich had to transfer to the [[Realschule]] (vocational school) after his father was accused of embezzling church funds<ref name="payne">{{Cite book |last=Payne |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1TPdd9JCr8C&q=embezzled |title=The Gold of Troy: The Story of Heinrich Schliemann and the Buried Cities of Ancient Greece |publisher=Dorset Press |year=1959 |isbn=978-0-88029-531-4 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|15}} and made his exams in 1836. His family's poverty made a university education impossible. In his archaeological career, there was often a division between Schliemann and the educated professionals.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=William M Calder; David A Traill |title=Myth, scandal, and history: the Heinrich Schliemann controversy and a first edition of the Mycenaean diary |publisher=Wayne State University Press |year=1986 |isbn=978-0814317952 |location=Detroit}}</ref>

At age 14, after leaving Realschule, Heinrich became an apprentice at Herr Holtz's grocery in [[Fürstenberg/Havel|Fürstenberg]]. He later said that his passion for Homer was born when he heard a drunken miller reciting it at the grocer's.<ref name="payne" />{{rp|70}} He laboured for five years until he was forced to leave because he hurt his chest, lifting a heavy barrel and coughing up blood.<ref>"Schliemann, Heinrich" in [[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]], [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Schliemann,_Heinrich at de.wikisource]. {{in lang|de}}</ref> In 1841, Schliemann moved to [[Hamburg]] and became a [[cabin boy]] on the ''Dorothea,'' a [[brig]] bound for [[Venezuela]]. After twelve days at sea, the ship foundered in a gale. The survivors washed up on the shores of the [[Netherlands]].<ref name="payne" />{{rp|25}} Schliemann became a messenger, office attendant, and later, a bookkeeper in [[Amsterdam]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dr. Naveen Vashishta |title=PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF ARCHAEOLOGY |pages=38 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340608060}}</ref>