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 Medusa.

In 1876 he began work as an editor for the Verlag Karl Baedeker in Athens, and in 1879 was hired as a librarian by the German Archaeological Institute, where he served on the editorial board of the journal, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung.

[1] In 1878 he assisted Carl Humann with excavatory work at Pergamon in Asia Minor.

[1] In 1879 he uncovered a Mycenaean tholos tomb near the village of Menidi, which is now the suburb of Acharnes to the north of Athens.