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Born in Berlin in 1863 into a well-established Jewish family, Borchardt was the second-oldest of six children of the merchant
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of 150,000 Marks, a considerable fortune equal to 53.7 kilograms of gold, and spent most of it on buying a villa in
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in Berlin). From 1902 until 1908, he undertook extensive excavations of the
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