Eduard Winkelmann (HeidICON 28921) (re-cropped)

Eduard Winkelmann (June 25, 1838 – February 10, 1896) was a German

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

Biography

He was born at Danzig (Gdańsk) in the

Province of Prussia The Province of Prussia (; ; pl, Prowincja Prusy; csb, Prowincjô Prësë) was a province of Prussia from 1829 to 1878. Prussia was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1829 from the provinces of East Prussia and West Prussia ...

. He studied at the universities of

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

and

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

, worked at the ''

Monumenta Germaniae historica The ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica'' (''MGH'') is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empire ...

'', and in 1869 became professor of history at the

University of Bern The University of Bern (german: Universität Bern, french: Université de Berne, la, Universitas Bernensis) is a university in the Switzerland, Swiss capital of Bern and was founded in 1834. It is regulated and financed by the Canton of Bern. It ...

, and four years later at

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

. He also spent some time in the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, where he was headmaster at the knight and chapter school in Reval (

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

) beginning in 1860, and was later appointed professor at the

University of Dorpat The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

(1865). He died at

Works

Winkelmann wrote a ''Geschichte der Angelsachsen bis zum Tode König Ælfreds'' (Berlin, 1883); and his residence in Russia induced him to compile a ''Bibliotheca Livoniae historica'' (

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, 1869–1870, and

, 1878); but his chief works deal with the history of the

Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire was a Polity, political entity in Western Europe, Western, Central Europe, Central, and Southern Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, dissolution i ...

during the

Later Middle Ages The Late Middle Ages or Late Medieval Period was the period of European history lasting from AD 1300 to 1500. The Late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern period (and in much of Europe, the Renai ...

. The most important of these are: * ''Philipp van Schwaben und Otto IV van Braunschweig'' (

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

, 1873–1878) * ''Geschichte Kaiser Friedrichs II und seiner Reiche 1212–1235'' (Berlin, 1863) and ''1235–1250'' (Reval, 1865) * ''Kaiser Friedrich II'' (Leipzig, 1889–1898) * Writings on Friedrich II in the ''Jahrbücher der deutschen Geschichte'' (Leipzig, 1862) He edited the ''Acta imperii inedita'' (

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...

, 1880-188

and with Julius von Ficker, Julius Ficker, ''Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Wilhelm, Alfons X und Richard'' (Innsbruck, 1882, 1901). Among Winkelmann's other works are: * ''Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte'' (1872) * ''Allgemeine Verfassungsgeschichte'' (Leipzig, 1901) * ''Urkundenbuch der Universität Heidelberg'' (Heidelberg, 1886)
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Winkelmann, Eduard 1838 births 1896 deaths 19th-century German historians Writers from Gdańsk People from the Province of Prussia Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Göttingen alumni Academic staff of Heidelberg University Academic staff of the University of Tartu 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities