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EBEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (17641830)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 840 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
EBEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (17641830) , the author of the first real guide-book to Switzerland, was born at Zullichau (Prussia). He became a medical man, visited Switzerland for the first time in 1790, and became so enamoured of it that he spent three years exploring the country and collecting all kinds of information relating to it. The result was the publication (Zurich, 1793) of his Anleitung auf die nutzlichste and genussvollste Art in der Schweitz zu reisen (2 vols.), in which he gave a complete account of the country, the General Information sections being followed by an alphabetically arranged
list
  of places, with descriptions. It at once superseded all other works of the kind, and was the best Swiss guide-book till the
appearance
  of " Murray " (1838). It was particularly strong on the geological and historical sides. The second (18041805) and third (1809181o) editions filled four volumes, but the following (the 8th appeared in 1843) were in a single volume. The
work
  was translated into French in 1795 (many later editions) and into English (by 1818). Ebel also published a
work
  (2 vols.,
Leipzig
 , 17981802) entitled Schilderungen der Gebirgsvolker der Schweiz, which deals mainly with the
pastoral
  cantons of Glarus and Appenzell. In 18or he was naturalized a Swiss citizen, and settled down in Zurich. In 18o8 he issued his
chief
  geological work, Uber den Bau der Erde im Alpengebirge (Zurich, 2 vols.). He took an active share in promoting all that could make his adopted country better known, e.g. Heinrich Keller's map (1813), the building of a hotel on the Rigi (1816), and the preparation of a panorama from that point (1823). From 1810 onwards he lived at Zurich, with the family of his friend,
Conrad
  Escher von der
Linth
  (17671823), the celebrated engineer. (W. A. B. C.)


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