Fritz Ebner (writer)

Fritz Ebner (born December 15, 1922 in Friedberg (Hessen) ; † August 28, 2010 in Darmstadt ) was a German Goethe researcher and literary historian .

Life

After graduating from high school, Fritz Ebner began studying medicine and graduated with a doctoral thesis "On a new stereo effect". med. in 1949. In addition to the main course of study, he also studied literature and the history of philosophy at the Universities of Giessen and Marburg .

After two years as a ward physician at the William G. Kerkhoff Institute in Bad Nauheim, Ebner joined the Merck company in Darmstadt in 1951 , where he was in charge of medical information and became head of public relations .

Literary activity

Ebner's literary activity revolved primarily around Goethe and his contemporaries. He researched and wrote about Goethe's stays in Darmstadt, for which he also designed an exhibition in 1982, and about Goethe's friend Johann Heinrich Merck , to whom an exhibition in Darmstadt in 1991 was dedicated. Other personalities in his literary research were Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , Georg Büchner and Justus Liebig .

Leading memberships

• Long-term chairman of the Darmstadt local association of the Goethe Society
• Honorary member of the Goethe Society in Weimar and the Justus Liebig Society in Gießen
• Board member of the Merck Society for Art and Science
• Deputy chairman of the Society of Hessian Literature Friends 1982–2010

Awards

• 1973 Johann Heinrich Merck Medal from the City of Darmstadt
• 1992 Goethe plaque from the State of Hesse
• 2002 Silver plaque of merit from the city of Darmstadt

literature

• Hessisches Ärzteblatt 12/2007; Obituary Darmstädter Echo September 4, 2010; Report commemorative hour Fritz Ebner in Darmstädter Echo October 18, 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Ebner in the catalog of the German National Library