Ernst Steindorff
Ernst Steindorff 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 . 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.
