Kotzebue (noble family)

Coat of arms of the untitled Kotzebue family of 1786, in the Baltic Coat of arms book by Carl Arvid von Klingspor in 1882.^[1]

The Kotzebue family^[a] is a Baltic German noble family of Brandenburgish descent, tracing its origin back to Kossebau in Altmark. They held nobility status in the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Bavaria. The English name of the Alaskan Inuit city of Kotzebue, as well as the neighboring Kotzebue Sound, in the Alaskan Arctic take their names from Otto von Kotzebue, a Russian naval officer of this family.

^ ^a ^b Klingspor 1882, p. 58.
^ Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst 1982, pp. 666.

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[FOOTNOTEKlingspor188258-1] Klingspor 1882, p. 58.

[FOOTNOTEHohenlohe-Schillingsfürst1982666-2] Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst 1982, pp. 666.

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