Edmundas Antanas Rimša

Edmundas Antanas Rimša (December 15, 1948 in Skirai, Rokiškis district) is a Lithuanian historian, specialist of heraldics, sfragistics and genealogy.

In 1977, Rimša graduated from Vilnius University and began working at the Ministry of Culture of the Lithuanian SSR.

In 1993 he received Ph.D. for his doctoral thesis Coat of Arms in the History of Lithuanian Cities.

Rimša works as a consultant at Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and as an expert of coins design at the Bank of Lithuania.

For his book Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės miestų antspaudai, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.