Milchhöfer, Arthur

Date born: 1852

Place born: Schirwindt/Ostpreußen

Date died: 1903

Place died: Kiel, Germany

Most noted for his efforts to trace the origins of ancient Greek art in Mycenaean and earlier antecedents. His Die Anfänge der Kunst in Griechenland (1883) was one of the inspirations for Arthur Evans (q.v.) in his later discoveries of Mycenae.

Home Country: Germany

Sources: Archäologenbildnisse: Porträts und Kurzbiographien von Klassichen Archäologen deutscher Sprache. Reinhard Lullies, ed. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1988: 103-105.

Bibliography: Die Anfänge der Kunst in Griechenland, 1883.