FORCHHAMMER, PETER WILHELM German classical archaeologist, was born at Husum, Schleswig on Oct. 23, 1801 and was educated at Lubeck and the university of Kiel, with which he was connected for nearly 65 years. In 1830-34 and 1838-40 he travelled in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt. In 1843 he was appointed professor of philology at Kiel and director of the archaeological museum founded by him self in co-operation with Otto Jahn. He died on Jan. 8, 1894. Forchhammer represented the progressive party of Schleswig Holstein in the German Reichstag from 1871 to His published works deal chiefly with topography and ancient myth ology. Hellenika. Griechenland. Im Neuen das Alte (183 7) con tain his theory of the origin and explanation of the Greek myths which, according to him, arose from definite local (espe cially atmospheric and aquatic) phenomena, and represented the annually recurring processes of nature as the acts of gods and heroes.