Ernst Steindorff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Steindorff

German historian

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1839

Place of Birth: Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1895

Profession: historian, university teacher, medievalist

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.