Gustav Engel
Gustav Engel (24 July 1893 – 17 December 1989) was a German historian. Life Born in Quakenbrück, 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 and studied in Münster 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