Theodor Wiegand

In Pergamon he discovered, in 1927, the arsenals of the castle at the acropolis and excavated the large sanctuary of Asklepios outside the city.

From 1899 until 1911, he worked for the museums of Berlin as a foreign director in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and was the science attaché of the German Embassy there.

In 1922, Wiegand was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

In 1930, the year he retired from the Prussian civil service, he was elected a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

In 1931 he was made a member of the civil order Pour le Mérite for Science and Art and, in 1932, he was elected to the presidency of the German Archaeological Institute.