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Christoph Wilhelm von Koch
Christoph Wilhelm von Koch (; 9 May 1737 – 25 October 1813, Strasbourg; from 1777 Edler von Koch) was a Protestant diplomat, politician, librarian and writer from Alsace, who also taught constitutional law and history. His pupils included Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maximilian von Montgelas, Klemens von Metternich and Louis-Guillaume Otto.
Early life.
Born in Bouxwiller in Alsace on 9 May 1737, the eighth of eleven children to councillor Johann Reinhard and his wife Susanna Felischmann, he attended
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Journal articles by Christoph Wilhelm Koch.
- "Mémoire sur la société littéraire que Jacques Wimpfeling avait fondée à Strasbourg vers la fin du XV. siècle", in Mémoires de la classe des sciences historiques et politiques de l’Institut
Sources and further reading.
- Franck, Jakob, "Koch, Christoph Wilhelm von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1882), pp 371–373 (online)
- Friedrich Buech, "Christoph Wilhelm Koch (1737–1813). Der letzte Rechtslehrer der alten Straßburger Hochschule