Name Eugen Ewig | ||
Died March 1, 2006, Bonn, Germany | ||
Eugen Ewig (May 18, 1913 Bonn - March 1, 2006) was a German historian who researched the history of the early Middle Ages. He taught as a professor of history at the University of Mainz and University of Bonn. He was an expert on the Merovingian period. Because he was considered after the Second World War, as one of the few German medievalists, who had not been affected by National Socialist ideas, he could act as a facilitator in the process of reconciliation between Germany and France. In 1958, He helped found the German Historical Research Centre in Paris, which in 1964, became the German Historical Institute in Paris.
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Origin and youth
Eugen Ewig grew up in a Catholic family. He was the son of the businessman Fritz Ewig, who died in 1924, and his wife Eugenie. From 1919 to 1931, he attended the Beethoven grammar school in Bonn. Among his teachers was the linguist and cultural philosopher [[Hermann Platz]], who taught him in French.