Arthur Milchhöfer

He specialized in studies of Greek Antiquity, and is remembered for his topographical research of ancient Attica.

Subsequently, he became an assistant to Ernst Curtius (1814–1896) in Berlin, and in 1883 was habilitated for archaeology at the University of Göttingen.

Milchoefer was the first to suspect a Bronze Age advanced culture on the island of Crete, which had also subjugated the Greek mainland before Troy.

After the mythical King Minos from the Theseus saga, he called it the "Minoan culture", a term later adopted and coined by British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans after he began excavating at Knossos in 1900.

[1] In his 1883 book "Die Anfänge der Kunst in Griechenland" (The Origins of Art in Greece), he was the first to suggest that Crete was the center of Mycenaean culture.