Eugen Ewig

Eugen Ewig (18 May 1913, Bonn – 1 March 2006) was a German historian who researched the history of the early Middle Ages. He taught at the University of Mainz and Bonn University. He was considered an expert in the Merovingian period.[1] In 1958, he founded the German Historical Research Center in Paris.[2]

Eugen Ewig

Life

He studied at the Beethoven grammar school in Bonn, with Hermann Platz. He studied with Wilhelm Levison,[3] and Ernst Robert Curtius. He trained as an archivist at Institute for Archive Science and History in Berlin-Dahlem. He worked at the Lorraine State Archives in Metz. He was interned after the war, but he was released in February / March 1945.

From 1946 until 1949, he was a lecturer at University of Nancy.[3] From 1946 to 1964, he taught at University of Mainz. With help from Konrad Adenauer, he founded the German Historical Institute in Paris.[2] They sponsored German and French historians.

From 1964 to 1980, he taught at University of Bonn.

Works

  • Trier im Merowingerreich. Civitas, Stadt, Bistum. Paulinus-Verlag, Trier 1954. (Nachdruck: Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1987, ISBN 3-511-00875-1.)
  • Die Rheinlande in der fränkischen Zeit (451–919/31). Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-34201-3
  • Die Merowinger und das Frankenreich [zuerst 1988]. 5., aktualisierte Auflage. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-170-19473-1.
  • Spätantikes und fränkisches Gallien. Band 1–2: Gesammelte Schriften (1952–1973). Herausgegeben von Hartmut Atsma. Artemis, München 1976 and 1979

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