Arthur Milchhöfer

Arthur Hoefer milk ( including milk Höfer, born March 21, 1852 in Schirwindt, East Prussia, † December 7, 1903 in Kiel ) was a German classical archaeologist.

Arthur milk Hoefer graduated in Berlin and Munich in 1873 with a dissertation about the Delian Apollo in Heinrich Brunn from. This was followed by 1875-1876 employment as a teacher at the Wilhelms -Gymnasium in Berlin. 1876-1878 he held the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute. Since 1880 he was assistant at the Berlin museums and participated in the excavations at Olympia. Shortly after his habilitation in 1882 in Göttingen milk Hoefer in 1883 associate professor at the Academy in Münster, where he established the Department of Classical Archaeology. In 1895 he became a full professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Kiel.

Milk Hoefer suspected as first a Bronze Age civilization on the island of Crete, which had also subjected to the Greek mainland in the period before Troy. After the mythical King Minos from the Theseus legend, he called them " Minoan culture," a term that was later picked up and dominated by the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, after he had begun in 1900 with excavations at Knossos.

Writings

  • The beginnings of art in Greece, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1883.

Pictures of Arthur Milchhöfer

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