From 1978 to 1979, Dumont was a research assistant at the Archive for Christian Democratic Policy in St. Augustin near Bonn.
From 1979 until his death in 2012 at the age of 67, Dumont was a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences and Literature.
In December 2008, he was awarded the Archive for Christian Democratic Policy by the city of Mainz Römisches Kaisermedaillon.
In 2007, he published the history of his 450-year-old grammar school with Ferdinand Scherf and Meike Hensel-Grobe.
[2] A complete compilation can be found at Susanne Speth's Verzeichnis der Schriften von Franz Dumont.