10 Facts About Richard Hoche

Richard Gottfried Hoche was a German classical scholar and head teacher.

Richard Hoche contributed approximately 200 entries to the German Dictionary of National Biography.

Richard Hoche was born in Aschersleben, a small town located approximately halfway between Magdeburg and Leipzig.

Richard Hoche's father, Eduard Gustav Adolf Hoche, was a secondary school teacher: his grandfather was the historian-theologian Johann Gottfried Hoche.

Richard Hoche attended secondary school in Zeitz before moving on to Berlin University where between 1852 and 1855 he studied classical philology and history.

Richard Hoche received his doctorate from Leipzig in 1856, and during the next few years taught at secondary schools in various places as follows:.

On 16 April 1874 the city mayor, Gustav Heinrich Kirchenpauer enacted the appointment, and Richard Hoche joined the governing body the next day.

Richard Hoche promoted the construction of new school buildings and the renovation of existing ones, devoting particular energy to nurturing and expanding the school library established by his predecessor, School Director Classen.

Richard Hoche began to reduce his teaching time in favour of other education-related projects, and in 1887 he stopped teaching completely, moving on from the school in order to take on responsibility for oversight and development of the secondary school system across Hamburg.

Richard Hoche wrote various reports and other documents concerned with the history of the Johanneum school in Hamburg.