Gabriel Welter

This archeologist was born in Metz, and died in Athens. He did excavations in the Elzas at the age of 14. He received a stipendium from the German Emperor Wilhelm the 2nd, who visited Metz, and who was impressed by the escavationcollection of the young Gabriel. Gabriel studied in Berlin, and later he worked for the Archaelogisches Institut des Deutches Reiches in Greece: mostly in Athens and on the island of Aegina and Naxos, and in Palestina. He is known …