Max Robert Engman (27 September 1945 – 19 March 2020) was a Finnish

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. Engman was born in Helsinki. Engman, who from 1968–1973 was an official at the Finnish national archives in Helsinki, published in 1983 a much-noticed dissertation about St. Petersburg and Finland. In 1985, he was appointed professor in general history at

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. Engman's research foremost studied the Finnish–Russian relations and the European empires. He also studied constitutional issues and the administration. His contributions as a subeditor for ''

Historisk Tidskrift för Finland ('Historical Journal for Finland') is a Swedish-language Finnish history journal which has been published by the ('Historical society') since 1916. It was founded in 1916 by , who had founded the ('Swedish students' historical society', which l ...

'' from 1971–1982 and the journal's editor in chief from 1982–2000 are considered as great. He died in Helsinki in 2020.

Bibliography

* '' Mannen i kolboxen'', 1979 * ''S:t Petersburg och Finland'', 1983 * ''Förvaltningen och utvandringen till Ryssland 1809–1917'', 1995 * ''Petersburgska vägar'', 1995 * ''Norden och flyttningarna under nya tiden'', 1997 * ''Lejonet och dubbelörnen'', 2000 * ''Gränsfall: Utväxlingar och gränstrafik på Karelska näset 1918–1920'', 2007

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Engman, Max.
''Biografiskt lexikon för Finland.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Engman, Max 1945 births 20th-century Finnish historians 2020 deaths Swedish-speaking Finns Academic staff of Åbo Akademi University 21st-century Finnish historians