According to Wikipedia, Rudolf Kötzschke was a German historian who founded the Seminar for Regional History and Settlement Studies in Leipzig, the first regional history institution at a German university. Life and career Born in Dresden, Kötzschke was the son of the "royal Saxon chamber musician" Hermann Kötzschke and older brother of the historian Paul Richard Kötzschke . He attended Gelinek's public school and from 1877 to 1885 the Kreuzschule in Dresden. From 1886 to 1889, he studied at the University of Leipzig, majoring in Latin and history and minoring in German, geography, Sanskrit and Ancient Greek; in the summer of 1887, he studied for a semester at the University of Tübingen. In Leipzig, he became a member of the . In 1889, he was awarded a doctorate in Leipzig with a thesis on Ruprecht von der Pfalz und das Konzil zu Pisa, the following year he passed the Staatsexamen. Subsequently, Kötzschke initially worked as a teacher at a Dresden and a Leipzig grammar school until the historian Karl Lamprecht brought him to Leipzig in 1894. In 1896, Kötzschke became an assistant at the Königlich Sächsischen Kommission für Geschichte.
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Geschichte der ostdeutschen Kolonisation (1937) (27)
