Habbo Gerhard Lolling [SEP] place of death
Habbo Gerhard Lolling
Habbo Gerhard Lolling (23 November 1848, Tergast near Emden – 22 February 1894, Athens) was a German classical archaeologist.
He studied classical philology and archaeology at the University of Göttingen, receiving his doctorate in 1871 with a dissertation on the Medusa. Following graduation, he relocated to Athens as a tutor. He would live and work in Greece, mainly Athens, for the rest of his life. In 1876 he began work as an editor for the Verlag Karl Baedeker in Athens, and in
long period of operation of the Diolkos, during which modifications and repairs must have significantly changed the appearance of the trackway.
Structure Modern exploration.
The chief engineer of the Corinth Canal, Béla Gerster, conducted extensive research on the topography of the Isthmus, but did not discover the Diolkos. Remains of the ship trackway were probably first identified by the German archaeologist Habbo Gerhard Lolling in the 1883 Baedeker edition. In 1913, James George Frazer reported in his commentary on Pausanias on traces of an ancient trackway across the Isthmus,