Manfred korfmann biography for kids

d.m. Manfred Korfmann

From the Turkish Daily Press:

Professor Manfred Osman Korfmann, who for 17 years was the excavation leader for digs at the ancient city of Troy, passed away on Thursday.

The 63-year-old academic was a lecturer at Germany's Tübingen University and was known for his diligent work and discoveries in Troy.

Korfmann, sadly, had been diagnosed with cancer and began receiving treatment at his home in Tübingen but passed away in the early hours of Thursday morning, reported the Doğan News Agency.

Korfmann received many honors in his lifetime, including a Special Success Award at the Turkish Historic, Cultural Heritage and Art Awards in 1988 and in 2001.

He won the Living Together Achievement Award for discovering documents during an excavation he led, organized and funded by the Helga and Edzart Reuter Foundation, that indicated peoples from Eastern and Greek civilizations had cohabited peacefully together.

Korfmann also established the Çanakkale-Tübingen-Tro