Eduard Winkelmann

Eduard Winkelmann ( born June 25, 1838 in Gdansk, † February 10, 1896 in Heidelberg ) was a German historian.

Eduard Winkelmann studied history at the universities in Berlin from 1856 in Leopold von Ranke and from 1858 when Georg Waitz in Göttingen. During his studies, he became in 1858 a member of the fraternity Brunsviga. In 1859 he was in Berlin with his doctorate work De regni Siculi administratione. Winkelmann was staff for the Monumenta Historica Germaniae and 1860 senior teacher at the Knight and the cathedral school at Reval. He habilitated at the University of Dorpat in 1866 and lecturer. From 1867 to 1869, Winkelmann President of the scholars Estonian society, from 1869 he also received the honorary membership. In the same year Winkelmann followed a call as associate professor of history at the University of Bern. In 1869 he was appointed full professor. In 1873 he succeeded on the chair by Wilhelm Wattenbach at the University of Heidelberg. This year, he was also a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. The chair in Heidelberg he held until his death. Dietrich Schäfer became his successor.

A major area of his research was the time of the late Hohenstaufen. He wrote the annals of German history under Philip of Swabia and Otto IV of Brunswick. In 1863 he published the first volume of the story " Emperor Frederick II " He has engaged in a ausgewogendes judgment of the Hohenstaufen. When considering the personality " a sense of unease in the admiration of " mingled with Winkelmann for the Hohenstaufen emperor. Winkelmann is one of the most influential researchers of Frederick II in the late 19th century. He also explored the transition from the Hohenstaufen to Angevin rule in the Kingdom of Sicily. In addition to his source publications is his work on the revision of the Fifth Division of the Regesta Imperii by Julius Ficker mentioned.

Winkelmann's daughter Anna married zoologists and Rostock and Tübingen Professor Friedrich Blochmann.

Writings

  • History of Emperor Frederick II and his kingdoms 1212-35. (Berlin and Reval 1863-65, 2 vols );
  • Bibliotheca historica Livoniae. (Petersburg, new ed, Berlin, 1878);
  • Philip of Swabia and Otto IV of Brunswick. (Leipzig 1873, Vol 1);
  • Magister Petrus de Liber ad honorem Augusti Ebulo. According to the original manuscript for academic exercises hg, Leipzig 1874.;
  • Sicilian and papal chancery orders and customs of the firm XIII. Century. Compiled for Academische exercises. Innsbruck 1880 online at archive.org
  • Acta imperii inedita saeculi XIII. et XIV (Innsbruck 1880-1885, 2 vols digitized version of Volume 1 );
  • History of the Anglo-Saxons (Berlin 1883);
  • Urkundenbuch the University of Heidelberg. (Heidelberg 1886, 2 vols Digitalisiate: Vol 1, Vol 1);
  • Emperor Frederick II ( in the " annals of German history ", Leipzig, 1889 ff ), etc.
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