![]() ![]() After an apprenticeship of about two years in the building trade he began studying architecture, archaeology and art history in Berlin, Vienna and Munich. In 1869 his family moved to Altona, where he came to the Christianeum as a Tertian and passed his school-leaving examination there in 1875. Robert Koldewey was bornin Blankenburg (Harz Mountains), Duchy of Braunschweig, to the customs officer Hermann Koldewey and his wife Doris, born copper. He first attended the grammar school in Braunschweig. He is best known for his discovery of the ancient city of Babylon in modern day Iraq, where he excavated the foundations of the ziggurat Marduk, and the famous Ishtar Gate. On September 10, 1855, famous German architect and self-trained archeologal historian Robert Johann Koldewey was born.
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