Wilhelm Klein
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Wilhelm Klein was a Hungarian-Austria
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n archeologist.

He was born in Karánsebes, Krassó-Szörény County, Kingdom of Hungary
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 (today Caransebeş
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, araş-Severin County], Romania
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)

He first studied Jewish theology and then philosophy at Vienna
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 and Prague
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. The Austrian government subsequently sent him to Italy
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 and Greece
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, where he engaged in archeological investigations, studying especially antique pottery. Klein is professor of archeology at the German University of Prague, and a member of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung Deutscher Wissenschaft, Kunst, und Literatur in Böhmen, as well as of the German Archeological Institute. He has published: "Euphronius"(1886); "Die Griechischen Vasen, mit Meisterinschriften" (2d ed., Vienna, 1887); and "Praxiteles" (1897).
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