Eduard Winkelmann

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Eduard Winkelmann (June 25, 1838 - February 10, 1896), German historian, was born at Gdansk (German: Danzig).

He studied at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen, worked at the Monumenta Germaniae historica, and in 1869 became professor of history at the University of Bern, and four years later at Heidelberg. He also spent some time in Russia, teaching at Tallinn (Reval) and at the University of Tartu (Dorpat). He died at Heidelberg on the 10th of February 1896.

Winkelmann wrote a Geschichte der Angelsachsen bis zum Tode König Alfreds (Berlin, 1883); and his residence in Russia induced him to compile a Bibliotheca Livoniae historica (St Petersburg, 1869-1870, and Berlin, 1878); but his chief works deal with the history of the Empire during the later middle ages.

The most important of these are:

Philipp van Schwaben und Otto IV van Braunschweig (Leipzig. 1873-1878)
Geschichte Kaiser Friedrichs II und seiner Reiche 1212-1235 (Berlin, 1863) and 1235-1250 (Reval, 1865)
Kaiser Friedrich II (Leipzig, 1889-1898) and other writings on Frederick in the Jahrbucher der deutschen Geschichte (Leipzig, 1862).

He edited the Acta imperii inedita (Innsbruck, 1880-1885), and with J Picker, Die Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Wilhelm, Alfons X und Richard (Innsbruck, 1882, 1901). Among Winkelmann's other works are Allgemeine Verfassungsgeschichte (Leipzig, 1901) and the Urkundenbuch der Universitat Heidelberg (Heidelberg, 1886).