Arthur Milchhöfer

Who was Arthur Milchhöfer?

Arthur Alexander Johann Milchhöfer was a German archaeologist who was a native of Schirwindt, East Prussia, a village in the easternmost corner of the German Reich.

He studied in Berlin and at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Heinrich Brunn. Subsequently he became an assistant to Ernst Curtius in Berlin, and in 1883 was habilitated for archaeology at the University of Göttingen. Later he was an associate professor at the University of Münster, where he was also in charge of the library of classical archaeology. In 1895 he became a professor of archaeology at the University of Kiel.

Milchhöfer was a specialist of Greek antiquities, being remembered for his topographical research of ancient Attica. In his 1883 book Die Anfänge der Kunst in Griechenland, he was the first to suggest that Crete was the center of Mycenaean culture. Other noted works on ancient Greece by Milchhöfer include:

Die Stadtgeschichte von Athen,; with Ernst Curtius.

Karten von Attika,; with Curtius and Johann August Kaupert.