Johann Christoph Brotze
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Johann Christoph Brotze (Johans Kristofs Broce in Latvian) (born 1742 in Görlitz, died 1823) was a famous German pedagogue and ethnographer.
Brotze studied theology and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig and Wittenberg, and was also skilled at technical drawing. He went to Riga (now in Latvia) in 1768 and spent the next 46 years as a teacher at the Riga Imperial Lyceum.
During that period he collected historical data and depicted in drawings and paintings everything he saw around him in his everyday life, always supplementing his drawings with extensive descriptions.
Today his works are considered an extremely valuable source of information for historians.
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