Eugen Ewig was a German historian who researched the history of the early Middle Ages.
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.
Politics
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.
Membership
Austrian Academy of Sciences. German Archaeological Institute. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts.
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.