EBNER

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EBNER - ESCHENBACH, MARIE, FREIFRAU VON (1830-
), Austrian novelist, was born at Zdislavic in Moravia, on the 13th of September 183o, the daughter of a

Count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Dubsky. She lost her

mother

MOTHER

in early infancy, but received a careful intellectual training from two stepmothers. In 1848 she married the Austrian captain, and subsequent field-

marshal

MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

, Moritz von Ebner-Eschenbach, and resided first at Vienna, then at Klosterbruck, where her husband had a military charge, and after 186o again at Vienna. The

marriage

MARRIAGE

was childless, and the talented wife sought

consolation

CONSOLATION (Fr. consolation, Lat. consolatio, from consolari, to assuage, comfort, console)

in literary

work

WORK

. In her endeavours she received assistance and encouragement from Franz Grillparzer and Freiherr von Minch -Bellinghausen. Her first essay was with the drama Maria Stuart in Schottland, which Philipp Eduard Devrient produced at the Karlsruhe theatre in r86o. After some other unsuccessful attempts in the field of drama, she found her true sphere in narrative. Commencing with Die Prinzessin von Banalien (1872), she graphic-ally depicts in Bogota (

Stuttgart

STUTTGART

, 1876, 4th ed. 1899) and Das Gemeindekind (Berlin, 1887, 4th ed. 1900) the surroundings of her Moravian

home

, and in Lotti, die Uhrmacherin (Berlin, 1883, 4th ed. 1900), Zwei Comtessen (Berlin, 1885, 5th ed. 1898), Unsiihnbar (1890, 5th ed. 1900) and Glaubenslos? (1893) the

life

LIFE

of the Austrian aristocracy in town and country. She also published Neue Erzahlungen (Berlin, 1881, 3rd ed. 1894), Aphorismen (Berlin, 188o, 4th ed. 1895) and Parabeln, Marchen and Gedichte (2nd ed., Berlin, 1892). Fran von Ebner-Eschenbach's elegance of style, her incisive wit and masterly depiction of character give her a foremost place among the German women-writers of her time. On the occasion of her seventieth birthday the
university of Vienna conferred upon her the degree of

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

of philosophy, honoris causa.
An edition of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Gesammelte Schriften began to appear in 1893 (Berlin). See A. Bettelheim, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: biographische Blatter (Berlin, 1900), and M. Necker, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, nach ihren Werken geschildert (Berlin, 1900).

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