Talk:Manfred Korfmann

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Not to be a smartass, but this article doesn't appear to have been originally composed in English. When I get some free time, I'll try to clean it up and render it more idiomatic, where possible, unless someone gets to it first. Qzorp 00:39, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I can only agree. This article is horribly written and full of ungrammatical and non-sensical language. "Habilitation" e.g. is not an English-word but a German academic term. It refers to a qualification procedure unique to German-speaking universities. Here, it means that to qualify for a professorship, the man had to present some original research of his own and defend it in front of faculty members from his school. The article completely misses the point that in his infamous "turn" towards the idea of Troy as a place of historical importance and considerable size, Korfmann used many of the ideas about a "big" Troy first presented by Eberhard Zangger in his book The Flood From Heaven (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1992). Zangger has also written about meeting Korfmann in Troy in the years leading up to 1992. After bashing Zangger publicly for his hypothesis, Korfmann in turn was heavily criticized by his faculty colleagues for many of the same ideas he had appropriated from Zangger without ever giving him due credit. More about this can be found in several articles in the German edition of Wikipedia. So, dear Qzorp, make my day and CLEAN UP this torrid article. User 217.232.20.9, November 25, 2006
 * Seconded. I will try to help at some point... provided I finish the work which I needed this article for (I found it sadly lacking in help). Arkhiver 11:51, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I've made a start David Trochos (talk) 23:15, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

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