Karl Koppmann

Georg Friedrich Karl Koppmann (24 March 1839, Hamburg – 25 March 1905, Rostock) was a German historian, archivist and an authority in the field of German municipal history, particularly in the Hanseatic League.

Koppmann was the son of a butcher; he completed an apprenticeship as a watchmaker before teaching at a primary school.

In 1862 he began to study history at the Akademisches Gymnasium in Hamburg, followed by studies at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin. He completed his doctorate with a dissertation on the oldest documents of the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen.

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Stadt Hamburg (1868) Necrologium capituli Hamburgensis (1868) Kämmereirechnungen der Stadt Hamburg, 1350-1562 (1869) Hamburgs kirchliche und Wohlthätigkeits - Anstalten im Mittelalter (1870) Hanserezesse 1256-1430 (1870) Das Seebuch (1876; Niederdeutsche Denkmäler 1) Der Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte nach seinen Aufgaben, Leistungen und Wünschen. Vortrag (1884) The chronicles of the cities of Lower Saxony: Lübeck (1884) Karl Ernst Hermann Krause. Biographische Skizze (1893) Geschichte der Stadt Rostock, Vol. 1 Aus Hamburgs Vergangenheit, Vol. 1 Hansische Geschichtsblätter