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.

[2] He completed his doctorate with a dissertation on the oldest documents of the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen.

In 1870 he began to publish articles on the Hanseatic Empires for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

Koppmann was a member of the Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte from 1868, a board member from 1869 to 1872 and became its permanent secretary in 1874; during this time he also edited its journal.