Eduard Winkelmann
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Eduard Winkelmann (June 25, 1838 – February 10, 1896) was a German historian.
He was born at Danzig (Gdańsk) in the Province of Prussia. 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 the Russian Empire, where he was headmaster at the knight and chapter school in Reval (Tallinn) beginning in 1860, and was later appointed professor at the Imperial University of Dorpat (1865). He died at Heidelberg.[1][2]
