About Ernst Steindorff
Lived 1839 – 1895 (aged 55). Ernst Steindorff was a German medievalist, historian and university teacher.
Ernst Steindorff (15 June 1839 – 9 April 1895) was a German historian who was a native of Flensburg, Duchy of Schleswig.
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.
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Who was Ernst Steindorff?
German historian (1839-1895)
When was Ernst Steindorff born?
Ernst Steindorff was born on 15 June 1839 in Flensburg.
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Ernst Steindorff died on 9 April 1895 in Göttingen.
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Ernst Steindorff was a medievalist, historian and university teacher.
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Ernst Steindorff was German.
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