Johann Christoph Brotze () (1 September 1742 – 4 August 1823) was a German pedagogue, artist and ethnographer. Biography Brotze was born in Görlitz, Electorate of Saxony. He studied theology and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig and Wittenberg, and was also skilled at technical drawing. He went to Riga in Livonia 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, as well as most buildings and monuments of significance in Livonia, supplemented with extensive descriptions. Today his works are considered an extremely valuable source of information for historians. Works Zeichnungen und deren Beschreibungen Books Sammlung verschiedener Liefländischer Monumente, Prospecte, Münzen, Wappen, etc. Gallery See also Ethnography Baltic Germans References External links Digital collection of Johann Christoph Brotze drawings at the Latvian Academic Library 1742 births 1823 deaths German draughtsmen 18th-century German educators German ethnographers German emigrants to the Russian Empire People from Görlitz People from the Electorate of Saxony Artists from Riga People from Livonia Leipzig University alumni University of Wittenberg alumni German male non-fiction writers