Full Name: Karo, Georg
Gender: male
Date Born: 1872
Date Died: 1963
Place Born: Venice, Veneto, Italy
Place Died: Freiburg im Breisgau, Hesse, Germany
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Ancient Greek (culture or style), Antique, the, Classical, Cretan, Creto-Mycenaean, Early Western World, Late Helladic, Mediterranean (Early Western World), and Mycenaean
Overview
Specialist in Cretan and Mycenean art. Karo studied archaeology at the University in Bonn, writing his dissertation under Georg Loeschcke. Professor of Archaeology at Halle, 1920-1930. Director of Deutsche Archäologische Institut in Athens, 1912-1916, 1930-1936.
Selected Bibliography
Die Schachtgräber von Mykenai, (2 vols.) 1930, 1933. Greifen am Thron, 1959.
Sources
Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 181-182.