Edmundas Antanas Rimša is a Lithuanian historian, specialist of heraldics, sfragistics and genealogy.
Education
In 1977, Rimša graduated from Vilnius University and began working at the Ministry of Culture of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1993 he received Doctor of Philosophy for his doctoral thesis Coat of Arms in the History of Lithuanian Cities.
Career
In 1981, he began working at the Lithuanian History Institute. He has been teaching at Vilnius University (from 1991) and Vytautas Magnus University (in 1995-1998). Rimša works as a consultant at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and as an expert of coins design at the Bank of Lithuania.
Membership
Rimša is a member of the editorial board of academic journals Lietuvos istorijos metraštis (Lithuanian History Annals) and Numizmatika, published by the Lithuanian National Museum. He is a member of the Poland Heraldry Association and the chairman of the Lithuanian Heraldry Commission.