Ernst Steindorff
German historian
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| Intro | German historian | |
| Places | Germany | |
| was | Medievalist Historian Educator | |
| Work field | Academia Social science | |
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| Birth | 15 June 1839, Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | |
| Death | 9 April 1895Göttingen, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany (aged 55 years) |
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Ernst Steindorff (June 15, 1839 – April 9, 1895) was a German historian who was a native of Flensburg.
He studied history at the Universities of Kiel, Göttingen and Berlin. From 1873 he was an associate professor of history at Göttingen, where in 1883 he became a full professor.
Steindorff is remembered as author of the two-volume Jahrbücher des Deutschen Reichs unter Heinrich III (Annals of the German Empire under Henry III) (1874–81). He also published the sixth edition of the Dahlmann-Waitz Quellenkunde der Deutschen Geschichte. Furthermore, he was the author of numerous biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.