Ferdinand Scherf (born in 1943 in

Mayen Mayen () is a town in the Mayen-Koblenz, Mayen-Koblenz District of the Rhineland-Palatinate Federal State of Germany, in the eastern part of the Volcanic Eifel Region. As well as the main town, additional settlements include Alzheim, Kürrenberg, ...

), is a German professor and historian. From 1970 to 2007 he was a teacher at the

Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium The Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium is a classical ''Gymnasium (school), gymnasium'' school in the Neustadt district of Mainz. Subjects The Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium is a classical school. The first foreign language taught is Latin and the second is En ...

Mainz Mainz (; #Names and etymology, see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in ...

and editor of local historical works.

Life

After studying history and German language and literature in Bonn and Mainz, Scherf began his career in February 1970 as a teacher of history and German at the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium, whose deputy headmaster he became in 1986 and where he remained until his retirement in 2007. It is thanks to his commitment that Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium has won the "Bundeswettbewerb Geschichte" (Federal History Competition) nine times, which has been held by the

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since 1973. Scherf is active in the . With his colleague Helmut Link, he published two writings "Begegnungen mit dem Judentum". In 1996, together with

Franz Dumont Franz Dumont (22 January 1945 – 3 November 2012) was a German historian. Life Born in Waldbröl, Dumont lived in Mainz from 1954 onwards and took his Abitur at the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz in 1964. During his school years, he had al ...

and Friedrich Schütz, the editorial work on an overall presentation of the began. Their publication in 1998 filled a gap in the documentation of the city history.

Awards

In 2007, Scherf was awarded the

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for his merits as a long-standing tutor of the history competition of the Federal President.

Writings

* with Franz Dumont and Friedrich Schütz: ''Mainz – Die Geschichte der Stadt.'' Zabern, Mainz, 1998 * with Franz Dumont: ''Mainz – Menschen, Bauten, Ereignisse: Eine Stadtgeschichte''. Zabern, Mainz 2010 * Gymnasium Moguntinum 70, 2007. Blätter des Freundes und Förderkreises des Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasiums Mainz. * with M. Hensel-Grobe and F. Dumont (ed.): ''Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium Mainz – Die Geschichte der Schule''.''Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium Mainz – Die Geschichte der Schule''
on WorldCat Rutzen, Ruhpolding, Mainz 2007.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scherf, Ferdinand 1943 births Living people People from Mayen 20th-century German historians 21st-century German historians Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany