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. In 1958, he founded the German Historical Research Center in Paris.

 Life 
He studied at the Beethoven grammar school in Bonn, with  Hermann Platz. He studied with Wilhelm Levison, 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. From 1946 to 1964, he taught at University of Mainz. With help from  Konrad Adenauer, he founded the German Historical Institute in Paris. 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

 References 

Category:2006 deaths
Category:German historians
Category:1913 births
Category:Academics of the University of Bonn