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