Paul Heinrich August Wolters (1 September 1858 in Bonn – 21 October 1936 in Munich) was a German classical archaeologist who specialized in ancient Greek and Roman art.
He studied classical philology and archaeology at the Universities of Halle, Strasbourg and Bonn, obtaining his PhD in 1882.
By way of a scholarship from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), he took a study trip to Italy, Greece and Asia Minor (1885–1887).
[2] In 1888/89, he performed excavatory work at the Kabeirion of Thebes, a rural sanctuary containing temples and theaters.
[4] In 1885 he published a new edition of Karl Friederichs' Die Gipsabgüsse antiker Bildwerke in historischer Folge erklärt : Bausteine zur Geschichte der griechisch-römischen plastik (The plaster casts of ancient sculptures explained in historical sequence, etc.