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He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological excavator of Hisarlik , now presumed to be the site of Troy , along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad reflects historical events. Schliemann's excavation of nine layers of archaeological remains has been criticized as destructive of significant historical artefacts, including the layer that is believed to be the Homeric Troy.

He was the fifth of nine children. The family moved to Ankershagen in summer Their second home houses the Heinrich Schliemann Museum today. Heinrich's father was a poor pastor.

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His mother died in , 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 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 Schliemann claimed that at the age of 7 he had declared he would one day excavate the city of Troy.

His family's poverty made a university education impossible.