Wilhelm König
Austrian archaeologist and painter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wilhelm König (born in Vienna) was an Austrian archaeologist and painter.
A painter by profession, in 1931, König was elected assistant to the German leader of the Baghdad Antiquity Administration with the title of a "Direktor". At the excavation of a Parthian settlement in modern day Khujut Rabu (near Baghdad, Iraq), he discovered the alleged Baghdad Battery.[1][2] In February 1939, he returned to Vienna, due to blood poisoning, where he published a book Im verlorenen Paradies. Neun Jahre Irak.[3]