Eugen Meyer

Eugen Meyer (born February 17, 1893 in Püttlingen , † August 29, 1972 in Saarbrücken ) was a German historian and archivist .

Eugen Meyer came from a Saarland-Luxembourg family. He studied history, Latin and German. In May 1920 he received his doctorate from Michael Tangl in Berlin on the Count Palatine of the Merovingians and Carolingians . In December 1920 the state examination for the higher teaching post took place. A year later, he took the exam for the scientific archive service. At the end of 1921 he began working at the Secret Main State Archives in Berlin-Dahlem . In 1932 he was appointed director of the State Archives in Münster . In 1934 Meyer was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . He was also deputy chairman of the commission until 1939, from which he resigned in 1945. In 1939 he accepted the auxiliary professorship in Berlin as an associate professor, in 1946 he became a full professor. In 1947 Meyer became director of the manuscript department of the Prussian State Library in Berlin. Two years later he took over a professorship at Saarbrücken University .

Meyer collected the material on Ludwig the Pious over the years - by systematically touring the archives and manuscript libraries - and founded the Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research (1951), which he headed until 1965. As a member of the Brandenburg Historical Commission, he was involved in the edition of the documents of the Margraves of Brandenburg . Meyer also participated in cultural policy, he was director (= minister) of the Saarland Ministry of Culture in 1951/52 and again in 1955/56.

literature

Alfons Becker : Nekrolog Eugen Meyer †. In: Historical magazine . Vol. 217, 1973, pp. 252-254, JSTOR 27618025 .
Theodor Schieffer : Obituary Eugen Meyer. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Vol. 29, 1973, pp. 666-667, ( digitized version ).
Eckart Henning : The historical auxiliary sciences. In: Reimer Hansen, Wolfgang Ribbe: History in Berlin in the 19th and 20th centuries. Personalities and institutions (= publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Vol. 82). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1992, ISBN 3-11-012841-1 , pp. 365-408, here pp. 376, 377.
Wolfgang Müller : "A foster home for the spirit that seeks to overcome the narrowness and strives for European expanse" - impressions of the history of the Saarland University. In: Bärbel Kuhn, Martina Pitz, Andreas Schorr (eds.): “Limits” without subject boundaries. Interdisciplinary approaches (= Annales Universitatis Saraviensis. Philosophical Faculties. Vol. 26). Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2007, ISBN 978-3-86110-422-3 , pp. 265–302, here pp. 285 ff., (Further references on Meyer's biography and his appointment to the Saarland University).
Ekkehard Eickhoff : memories. In: Wolfgang Müller, Petra Roscheck, Sabrina Trimmer (Red.): Anniversary publication for the sixtieth anniversary of the Historical Institute of Saarland University. Historical Institute of Saarland University, Saarbrücken 2009, ISBN 978-3-940147-17-2 , pp. 89–93, also pp. 3, 67.

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personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 17, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Püttlingen
DATE OF DEATH	August 29, 1972
Place of death	Saarbrücken