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EBERS, GEORG MORITZ (1837-1898)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 842 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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EBERS, GEORG MORITZ (1837-1898) , German Egyptologist and novelist, was born in Berlin on the 1st of March 1837. At Gottingen he studied jurisprudence, and at Berlin oriental languages and archaeology. Having made a

special

SPECIAL

study of Egyptology, he became in 1865 docent in Egyptian language and antiquities at Jena, and in 187o he was appointed professor in these subjects at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

. He had made two scientific journeys to

Egypt

EGYPT

, and his first

work

WORK

of importance, Agypten and die Bucher Moses, appeared in 1867-1868. In 1874 he edited the celebrated medical papyrus (" Papyrus

Ebers

EBERS, GEORG MORITZ (1837-1898)

") which he had discovered in Thebes (translation by H.

Joachim

JOACHIM, JOSEPH (1831—1907)

, 189o).

Ebers

EBERS, GEORG MORITZ (1837-1898)

early conceived the idea of popularizing Egyptian

lore

LORE
LORE, AMBROISE DE (1396-1446)

by means of historical romances. Eine agyptische Konigstochter was
published in 1864, and obtained

great

GREAT

success. His subsequent works of the same kindUarda (1877), Homo sum (1878), Die Schwestern (188o), Der Kaiser (1881), of which the scene is laid in

Egypt

EGYPT

at the time of Hadrian, Serapis (1885), Die Nilbraut (1887), and Kleopatra (1894), were also well received, and did much to make the public familiar with the discoveries of Egyptologists. Ebers also turned his attention to other fields of historical fictionespecially the 16th century (Die Frau Biirgermeisterin, 1882; Die Gred, 1887)without, however, attaining the success of his Egyptian novels. Apart from their antiquarian and historical

interest

INTEREST

, Ebers's books have not a very high literary value. His other writings include a descriptive

work

WORK

on Egypt (Agypten in Wort and Bild, 2nd ed., ,88o), a guide to Egypt (1886) and a life (1885) of his old teacher, the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius. The state of his health led him in 1889 to retire from his chair at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

on a pension. He died at Tutzing in Bavaria, on the 7th of August 1898.
Ebers's Gesammelte Werke appeared in 25 vols. at

Stuttgart

STUTTGART

(1893-1895). Many of his books have been translated into English. For his life see his Die Geschichte meines Lebens (

Stuttgart

STUTTGART

, 1893) ; also R. Gosche, G. Ebers, der Forscher and Dichter (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1887).

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