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

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Biography

He was born at Danzig (Gdańsk) in the

Province of Prussia The Province of Prussia (; ; ; ) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1824 to 1878. The province was established in 1824 from the provinces of East Prussia and West Prussia, and was dissolved in 1878 when the merger was reversed. König ...

. He studied at the universities of

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and

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, worked at the ''

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

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, and four years later at

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. He also spent some time in the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

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

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

Imperial University of Dorpat The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.

(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'' (

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, 1869–1870, and

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

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during the

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

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, 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'' (

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, 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 Writers from Gdańsk People from the Province of Prussia Historians from the Kingdom of Prussia 19th-century German historians 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Göttingen alumni Academic staff of Heidelberg University Academic staff of the University of Tartu Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities