GEORG See also:

• MORITZ, KARL PHILIPP (1757-1793)

MORITZ See also:

• GEORG MORITZ EBERS (1837-1898)

EBERS (1837-1898)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German Egyptologist and novelist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin on the 1st of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1837 . At See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen he studied See also:

• JURISPRUDENCE (Lat. jurisprudenlia, knowledge of law, from jus, right, and prudentia, from providere, to foresee)
• JURISPRUDENCE, COMPARATIVE

jurisprudence, and at Berlin See also:

• ORIENTAL

oriental See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages and See also:

• ARCHAEOLOGY (from Gr. &pxa1a, ancient things, and Xoyos, theory or science)

archaeology . Having made a See also:

• SPECIAL

special study of Egyptology, he became in 1865 docent in See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language and antiquities at See also:

• JENA

Jena, and in 187o he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor in these subjects at See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig . He had made two scientific journeys to See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, and his first See also:

• WORK

work of importance, Agypten and See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die See also:

• BUCHER, LOTHAR (1817–1892)

Bucher See also:

• MOSES (Gr. Mwvo c, Mcoo-i3s)
• MOSES, ASSUMPTION OF

Moses, appeared in 1867-1868 . In 1874 he edited the celebrated medical See also:

• PAPYRUS

papyrus (" Papyrus See also:

• EBERS, GEORG MORITZ (1837-1898)

Ebers ") which he had discovered in See also:

• THEBES (anciently &Oat, Thebae, or in poetry sometimes Oif3a, in modern Greek Phiva, or, according to the corrected pronunciation, Thivae)
• THEBES (e 3a1)
• THEBES, ROMANCE OF

Thebes (See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation by H . See also:

• JOACHIM, JOSEPH (1831—1907)

Joachim, 189o) . Ebers See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early conceived the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of popularizing Egyptian See also:

• LORE
• LORE, AMBROISE DE (1396-1446)

lore by means of See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical romances . Eine agyptische Konigstochter was published in 1864, and obtained See also:

• GREAT

great success . His subsequent See also:

• WORKS

works of the same See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind—Uarda (1877), Homo sum (1878), Die Schwestern (188o), Der Kaiser (1881), of which the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene is laid in Egypt at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of See also:

• HADRIAN (PUBLICS AELIUS HADRIANUS)

Hadrian, See also:

• SERAPIS

Serapis (1885), Die Nilbraut (1887), and Kleopatra (1894), were also well received, and did much to make the public See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar with the discoveries of Egyptologists . Ebers also turned his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to other See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields of historical fiction—especially the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century (Die Frau Biirgermeisterin, 1882; Die Gred, 1887)—without, however, attaining the success of his Egyptian novels . Apart from their antiquarian and historical See also:

• INTEREST

interest, Ebers's books have not a very high See also:

• LITERARY

literary value . His other writings include a descriptive work on Egypt (Agypten in Wort and Bild, 2nd ed., ,88o), a See also:

• GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

guide to Egypt (1886) and a See also:

• LIFE

life (1885) of his old teacher, the Egyptologist Karl See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard See also:

• LEPSIUS, KARL RICHARD (1810–1884)

Lepsius .

The See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of his See also:

• HEALTH

health led him in 1889 to retire from his See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair at Leipzig on a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension . He died at Tutzing in See also:

• BAVARIA (Ger. Bayern)

Bavaria, on the 7th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1898 . Ebers's Gesammelte Werke appeared in 25 vols. at See also:

• STUTTGART

Stuttgart (1893-1895) . Many of his books have been translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English . For his life see his Die Geschichte meines Lebens (Stuttgart, 1893) ; also R . Gosche, G . Ebers, der Forscher and Dichter (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1887) .