Gustav Engel (24 July 1893 – 17 December 1989) was a German historian.
Life
Born in
Quakenbrück
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, Engel studied art history, English and French from 1912 to 1914. After the beginning of the First World War, Engel was called up before he could finish his studies. He was a prisoner of war until March 1920. Afterwards, Engel completed an apprenticeship in a bookshop to become an independent bookseller. From 1935, he was employed in the municipal archive in
Bielefeld
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and studied in
Münster
Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...
with half his time of service. He finished his study in 1938 and received his doctorate with the thesis ''Geistiges Leben in Minden, Ravensberg und Herford während des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts''.
Engel was chairman of the from 1944 to 1968. Since 1990, the association has awarded the
Gustav Engel Prize annually in memory of his work. Since 1946 he had also been a full member of the and was appointed honorary member on 24 April 1974. His burial place is on the in Bielefeld where he died at the age of 96.
Publications
; Monographs
* ''Enger – Ein Heimatbuch zur Tausendjahrfeier (1948)''. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1948
* ''Stadt und Kreis Bielefeld'' (, vol. 11). Regensberg, Münster 1950
* ''Die Stadtgründung im Bielefelde und das Münstersche Stadtrecht.'' Bielefeld, 1952
* '' Bielefeld zwischen gestern und morgen''. Berlin / Holzminden 1954
* ''Spenderliste und Bautagebuch für den Bau des Bielefelder Gymnasiums im Jahre 1608: nach der Abschrift Reinhold Meyers.'' Küster, Bielefeld 1958
* ''Bielefeld: Bild einer Stadt. Impressionen und Profile''.
Edition Peters
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History
The company came into being on 1 December 1800 when the Viennese composer Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812) and the local organist Ambrosius Kühnel ( ...
, Bad Honnef 1960,
* ''Bielefelds Platz in der Geschichte der Städte Westfalens: Rede zur 750-Jahrfeier der Stadt Bielefeld. '' 1964
* ''Bielefeld: Gesicht und Wesen einer Stadt.'' Pfeffer, Bielefeld 1975
* ''Herrschaftsgeschichte und Standesrecht: Riege und Hagen, Hausgenossen, Hausgenossenschaften, Malmannen.'' Pfeffer, Bielefeld 1976
* ''Landesburg Und Landesherrschaft an Osning, Wiehen Und Weser: Mit Grundrissen, Ansichten Und Rekonstruktionen.'' Pfeffer, Bielefeld 1979,
* ''Politische Geschichte Westfalens.'' 4th edition, Grote, 1980,
Politische Geschichte Westfalens
on Persée
* ''Die Westfalen: Volk, Geschichte, Kultur.'' Westfalen Verlag, 1987,
; Essays
''Westfalen ist verschwunden''.
In ''Die Zeit
''Die Zeit'' (, "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles.
History
The ...
'', Nr. 22/1953
Further reading
* Reinhard Vogelsang: ''Nachruf auf Prof. Engel.'' In ''Ravensberger Blätter'', Heft 1, 1990
References
External links
*
Biographische Angaben auf den Seiten der Historischen Kommission für Westfalen
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20th-century German historians
1893 births
1989 deaths
People from Quakenbrück