Who was Sophia Engastromenos, Heinrich Schliemann’s second wife?

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Sophia Engastromenos was a young Greek schoolgirl whom Heinrich Schliemann married in 1869 after divorcing his first wife, Ekaterina Lyschin. Schliemann selected her through a marriage bureau. She later assisted him during his first season of archaeological excavations at the site of Troy.1