Otto Linke

Otto Linke (born June 23, 1846 in Breslau , Province of Silesia ; † March 26, 1930 ibid) was a German teacher and historian .

Life

Linke grew up in Breslau. He interrupted school in 1866 as a war volunteer. When he returned, he continued attending school and graduated from high school at Michaelis in 1868. He then studied history, geography and German at the University of Wroclaw . In 1869 he became a member of the Corps Silesia Breslau . Like his school days, he also interrupted his studies and served in the 62nd Infantry Regiment during the war of 1870/71 . After graduating, he received his doctorate in April 1873. phil. Immediately afterwards he became a teacher, then a senior teacher and finally a professor at the Realgymnasium am Zwinger in Breslau. He stayed at this school until his retirement in 1916. Linke became known because, in addition to his work as a teacher, he published numerous books and essays on topics from Silesian history as well as a travel guide about Wroclaw.

Works

• The controversy about Hannibal's Alpine crossing , Breslau (dissertation) 1873
• From the last decades of Austrian rule in Silesia , in: "Die Grenzboten" No. 32 of August 5, 1880
• Breslau - a guide through the city for locals and foreigners , Breslau: Trewendt 1901 (co-author: Hermann Luchs)
• Friedrich Theodor von Merckel in the service of the fatherland: Part I. By September 1810 (= representations and sources on Silesian history, vol. 5), Breslau 1907
• Friedrich Theodor von Merckel in the service of the fatherland: Part II. Until January 1815 (= representations and sources on Silesian history, vol. 10), Breslau 1910
• To the journey of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. nach Schlesien 1810 , in: Zeitschrift des Verein für Geschichte und Altertum Schlesiens 39 (1905), pp. 108-132

literature

• Fritz Maywald: Complete directory of members of the Corps Silesia 1821–1961 , Part I, Cologne 1961, serial no. 449.
• Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 21 , 443.

Web links

• Otto Linke's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL reviewer in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)