Georg August Ebell

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Georg August Ebell (born August 16, 1745 in Hanover , † April 7, 1824 in Hoya ) was a German lawyer, postal director and private scholar.

Life

Georg August Ebell was one of the sons of the abbot of Loccum Monastery Georg Wilhelm Ebell . After attending the Ilfeld convent school , he enrolled in October 1764 to study law at the University of Göttingen . During his studies he made friends with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who was also studying in Göttingen at the time, and remained connected to him in lifelong correspondence. Lichtenberg named this circle of friends of Hanoverian officials, which also included Johann Andreas Schernhagen (1722–1785), Ernst Ludwig Partz (1725–1800) and Johann Daniel Ramberg , as the “clover leaf”. After completing his studies, he entered the Hanoverian civil service and became court and chancellery advisor in Hanover . From 1798 to 1817 he was chief postmaster at the Hanover Post Office in Bremen . When he retired, he lived in Hoya.

Another engraved view for Ebel of “Hans Barwierer”, who probably died of lead poisoning in Brix in 1532;
Copper engraving after the Brixen painter Joachim Moler from Johann Friedrich Henckel's treatise from 1745 On mountain addiction ...

Ebell's interests as a privately educated author were mostly related to health issues of the time. His book on lead poisoning was published a second time in 1825. A record of his numerous articles in magazines can be found at Rotermund. The correspondence with Lichtenberg in the various Lichtenberg editions.

Fonts

  • The bley glaze of earthly kitchen utensils as probably one of the main sources of our prevailing diseases and a contributory cause of the decline in the strength of present generations. Considered from court documents and other evidence , Hanover: in Commission der Hahnschen Buchhandlung, 1793; Digital copy from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
  • The bley glaze of earthen kitchen utensils as an unrecognized main source of many of our diseases and a contributory cause of the decrease in physical strength of people; viewed from court documents and other evidence , Hahnsche Buchhandlung in Commission, Hanover 1794; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library

literature

  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Ebell (Georg August) in: The learned Hanover, or lexicon of writers who have lived in the Kingdom of Hanover since the Reformation . Bremen 1823, Volume 1 [A-E], pp. 502/503
  • Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Ebell (Georg August) in: Medicinisches Writer-Lexicon of the now living doctors, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated peoples: Dari - Eh , Volume 5, Copenhagen 1831, p. 499

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Ebell (Georg August) in: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated peoples: Dari - Eh , Volume 5, Copenhagen 1831, p. 499
  2. ^ Franz Heinrich Böckh : History and Remembrance Calendar for the year 1829. A useful diary for all classes, but especially for friends of religion and history , Vienna: printed and published by JP Sollinger, 1829, p. 35; Digitized via Google books
  3. ↑ Lichtenberg's companions at http://www.lichtenberg-gesellschaft.de
personal data
SURNAME Ebell, Georg August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, postal director and private scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1824
Place of death Hoya