Adolf Ebert

Georg Karl Wilhelm Adolf Ebert (born June 1, 1820 in Kassel ; † July 1, 1890 in Leipzig ) was a German literary historian and Romanist .

Life

Ebert studied in Marburg , Leipzig , Göttingen and Berlin from 1840–43 , was then appointed professor at the University of Marburg and in 1863 the newly founded chair of Romance linguistics in Leipzig.

With Ferdinand Wolf he published the yearbook for Romance and English language and literature, welcomed in association with Ferdinand Wolf by Adolf Ebert (Berlin, later Leipzig 1859–63, 5 vol .; continued by Ludwig Lemcke until 1876), in which by him published among others: The English Mysteries (Vol. 1) and The oldest Italian Mysteries (Vol. 5).

Since 1867 he was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and in 1878 he participated in the founding of the Plessavia fraternity.

Works

• Source research from the history of Spain . Kassel 1849
• Handbook of Italian National Literature, a historical anthology of poetry and prose from the oldest to the most recent; along with an outline of the literary history. Marburg 1854
• Development history of the French tragedy mainly in the XVI. Century . Gotha 1856. (Reprint: Genève: Slatkine, 1970.)
• Tertullian's relationship with Minucius Felix . This includes: In addition to an appendix on Commodian's Carmen apologeticum . Leipzig 1868
• General history of the literature of the Middle Ages in the West . Leipzig 1874-80, vol. 1 u. 2. Reprint Graz (Austria): Akademische Druck- u. Verl.-Anst, undated
• De syntaxi Frontoniana . Erlangen 1881.

literature

• Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Ebert, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 230-241.
• Alfred Noyer-Weidner:  Ebert, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 253 ( digitized version ).
• Library of Prof. Dr. Ad. Ebert in Leipzig. Leipzig: List & Francke, 1891 (antiquarian directory No. 226)

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Ebert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Adolf Ebert  in the German Digital Library
• Works by and about Adolf Ebert at Open Library (including the history of the development of French tragedy in full text)
• Overview of Adolf Ebert's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1862 to summer semester 1890)
• Adolf Ebert in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig