Full Name: Milchhöfer, Arthur
Other Names:
- Arthur Milchhoefer
Gender: male
Date Born: 1852
Date Died: 1903
Place Born: Kutuzovo, Krasnoznamensky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
Place Died: Kiel, Schleswig Holstein, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style) and Classical
Overview
Most noted for his efforts to trace the origins of ancient Greek art in Mycenaean and earlier antecedents. He was born in Schirwindt, Ostpreußen, Germany, which is present-day Kutuzovo, Krasnoznamensky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. His Die Anfänge der Kunst in Griechenland (1883) was one of the inspirations for Arthur J. Evans in his later discoveries of Mycenae.
Selected Bibliography
Die Anfänge der Kunst in Griechenland, 1883.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 103-105.