Richard Armstedt

German historian and educator

1851 (Osterburg) – 1931 (Königsberg)
German historian, philologist and educator. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Tübingen in 1885. The following year he became a senior teacher at the Altstädtisches Gymnasium in Königsberg. From 1900 to 1921 he was headmaster of the Kneiphöfisches Gymnasium. He wrote several books, including works on the history of Königsberg, of the Kneiphöfisches Gymnasium, and of the Königsberg Masonic lodge “Zum Todtenkopf und Phönix” (“Death’s Head and Phoenix”), one of the oldest in Germany.