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FRIEDRICH ADOLF EBERT (1791-1834)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 842 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIEDRICH ADOLF See also:EBERT (1791-1834)  , See also:German bibliographer, was See also:born at Taucha, near See also:Leipzig, on the 9th of See also:July 1791, the son of a Lutheran pastor . At the See also:age of fifteen he was appointed to a subordinate See also:post in the municipal library of Leipzig . He studied See also:theology for a See also:short See also:time at Leipzig, and afterwards See also:philology at See also:Wittenberg, where he graduated See also:doctor in See also:philosophy in 1812 . While still a student he had already published, in 1811, a See also:work on public See also:libraries, and in 1812 another work entitled Hierarchiae in religionem ac literas commoda . In 1813 he was attached to the Leipzig University library, and in 1814 was appointed secretary to the Royal library of See also:Dresden . The same See also:year he published F . Taubmanns Leben and Verdienste, and in 1819 Torquato See also:Tasso, a See also:translation from See also:Pierre See also:Louis Ginguene with annotations . The See also:rich resources open to him in the Dresden library enabled him to undertake the work on which his reputation chiefly rests, the Allgemeines bibliographisches Lexikon, the first See also:volume of which appeared in 1821 and the second in 183o . This was the first work of the See also:kind produced in See also:Germany, and the most scientific published anywhere . From 1823 to 1825 See also:Ebert was librarian to the See also:duke of See also:Brunswick at Wolfenbiittel, but returning to Dresden was made, in 1827, See also:chief librarian of the Dresden Royal library . Among his other See also:works are—See also:Die Bildung See also:des Bibliothekars (1820), Geschichte and Beschreibung der koniglichen ojentlichen Bibliothek in Dresden (1822), Zur Handschriftenkunde (1825-1827), and Culturperioden des obersachsischen Mittelalters (1825) . Ebert was a contributor to various See also:journals and took See also:part in the editing of See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's See also:great See also:encyclopaedia .

He died at Dresden on the 13th of See also:

November 1834, in consequence of a fall from the See also:ladder in his library . See the See also:article in Ersch and Grubers Encyclopadie, and that in the Allg. deutsche; Biog. by his successor in the post of chief librarian in Dresden, Schnorr von Carolsfeld .

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