Eduard Winkelmann was a German

Germany

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 historian

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 from Danzig (Gdańsk)

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 in the Province of Prussia

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He studied at the universities of Berlin

Humboldt University of Berlin

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 and Göttingen, worked at the Monumenta Germaniae historica

Monumenta Germaniae Historica

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, and in 1869 became professor of history at the University of Bern, and four years later at Heidelberg. He also spent some time in the Russian Empire

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, teaching at Reval (Tallinn)

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 and at the University of Dorpat (Tartu)

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. He died at Heidelberg.

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

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

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 during the Later Middle Ages.

The most important of these are:

• Philipp van Schwaben und Otto IV van Braunschweig (Leipzig
  Leipzig
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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) and other writings on Frederick in the Jahrbucher der deutschen Geschichte (Leipzig, 1862).

He edited the Acta imperii inedita (Innsbruck

Innsbruck

- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

, 1880-1885)http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00001097/images/, and with Julius Ficker, 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) (Bd. 1, Bd. 1).