Ernst Hpfner was appointed Provinzialschulrat in Koblenz, then he served as a curator at the University of Gttingen (a private research university founded in 1734).
The University of Gottingen, officially the Georg August University of Gottingen, (German: Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Gottingen, Germany. 
