Career
He taught as a professor of history at the University of Mainz and University of Bonn. He was an expert on the Merovingian period. In 1958, He helped found the German Historical Research Centre in Paris, which in 1964, became the German Historical Institute in Paris.
Origin and youth
Eugen Ewig grew up in a Catholic family.
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.
