Heinrich Dressel
Heinrich Dressel was a German archaeologist.
He studied under Theodor Mommsen in Berlin, and later received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen with the thesis "De Isidori Originum fontibus". In 1878 he became a professor at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, and in 1898 was appointed director of the Münzkabinett in Berlin.
He is best known for several books on Latin inscriptions, and he is the discoverer of the Duenos inscription found by Heinrich Dressel in 1880 on the Quirinal Hill in Rome and then based on hand writing style estimated to be the first latin ever written so probably 0600's of Before Christ. Dressel also developed a typology for classifying ancient amphorae, based on his pioneering excavations at Monte Testaccio in Rome.
Dressel is also known for his work in numismatics, and was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1908.
