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

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and Finland. In 1985, he was appointed professor in general history at Åbo Akademi. 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'' 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