Alexander Enmann

Alexander Enmann (* August 20 ^{. Jul} / 1. September  1856 ^greg. In Parnu , † July 1 ^jul. / 14. July  1903 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Baltic German historian .

Enmann, the son of the doctor and councilor Theodor Wilhelm Enmann, studied history at the University of Dorpat from 1874 to 1880 . From 1883 to 1897 he was a librarian at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. At the same time he was a teacher of history at the St. Katharinen School (1885–88) and at the School of the Reformed Congregations in St. Petersburg (1888–1903).

He was responsible for the discovery of the so-called Enmann Imperial History , a lost historical work of the 4th century AD.

Fonts

• On the sources of Sicilian history, see Pompejus Trogus , Dorpat, University, Master's thesis, 1880
• Investigations into the sources of Pompejus Trogus for the Greek and Sicilian history. Awarded ... award publication by the historical and philological faculty of the Imperial University of Dorpat , Dorpat 1880
• A lost history of the Roman emperors and the book De viris illustribus urbis Romae. Source studies , in: Philologus , Supplement-Volume 4, 1884, pp. 338-510.
• Critical attempts at the oldest Greek history: 1. Cypros and the origin of the Aphrodite cult , St. Petersburg 1887 (= Dorpat, university, dissertation, 1887)
• On the Roman Royal History , St. Petersburg 1892
• The newly discovered archaic inscription of the Roman Forum , in: Bulletin de l'Académie Imperiale des sciences de St.-Petersburg 11, 1899, No. 5
• The oldest editorship of the pontifical annals, in: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 57, 1902, p. 517-

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Alexander Enmann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat , Dorpat 1889
• Erik Amburger database at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies