Otto Tschirch

Otto Tschirch
Born	Otto Richard Sigismund Tschirch 4 June 1858 Guben, Brandenburg, Prussia
Died	13 March 1941 Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg, Germany
Occupation	Historian/writer Teacher
Spouse(s)	Maria Beata Schütz (1864-1945)
Children	Ilse Tschirch (1886-1949) Siegfried Tschirch (1888-) Dr. Alexander Tschirch (1890-) 2 others
Parent(s)	Carl Adolf Tschirch (1815–1875) Marie Tschirch (1827-1906) (born Marie Sausse)

Otto Tschirch (4 June 1858 - 13 March 1941) was a German pedagogue, historian and archivist. Alongside his general teaching, his particular specialism was the history of Brandenburg an der Havel and of Brandenburg more generally. These were the focus of much of his published output.

Otto Richard Sigismund Tschirch was born in Guben, then a mid-sized industrialising town straddling the Neiße River, located between Berlin and Breslau. He was the second recorded son of, Carl Adolf Tschirch (1815–1875), an evangelical minister in Guben. His elder brother, Alexander Tschirch (1856-1939), later gained distinction as a professor of pharmacy at Bern.

Otto Tschirch attended the elementary and secondary ("Gymnasium") schools in Guben before moving on to study at Berlin where between 1876 and 1880 he studied History, Germanistics, Geography, Philosophy and Pedagogy. His lecturers at Berlin included Mommsen, Nitzsch and Droysen for History, Kiepert for Geography, Johannes Schmidt for Indo-German languages, Albrecht Weber for Sanskrit and Philosophy of language with Steinthal. After university Tschirch taught, till 1882, at the orphanage ("Zivilwaisenhaus") in Potsdam. He obtained his teaching certificate in June 1882 and in October of that year took up a position as a Referendary at the Luisenstädtische Gymnasium (secondary school) in Berlin, switching early on to the in Brandenburg an der Havel, where from 1884 he had a permanent contract.

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