Georg Ebers
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Georg Moritz Ebers (
Life
Georg Ebers was born in Berlin and was the youngest of the five children of an affluent family of bankers and porcelain manufacturers.[1] The Ebers children were raised by their mother on her own, after their father committed suicide shortly after Ebers was born.[1] His mother ran a salon popular among members of the intelligentsia, which included Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the Grimm Brothers, and Alexander von Humboldt.[1]
At
Ebers early conceived the idea of popularising Egyptian lore by means of historical romances. Eine ägyptische Königstochter (An Egyptian Princess) was published in 1864 and obtained great success. His subsequent works of the same kind — Uarda (1877), Homo sum (1878), Die Schwestern (1880), Der Kaiser (1881), of which the scene is laid in Egypt at the time of
Ebers discovered the
His other writings include a descriptive work on Egypt (Aegypten in Wort und Bild, 2nd ed., 1880);
Ebers's Collected Works appeared in 25 volumes at Stuttgart (1893–1895). Many of his books have been translated into English. For his life, see his Die Geschichte meines Lebens (Stuttgart, 1893); also R. Gosche, G. Ebers, der Forscher und Dichter (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1887).[6]
Ebers was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1895.[7]
Arachne, which was published on 7 August 1898, was Ebers' last novel. It was written at the Villa Ebers in Tutzing, near Munich.[8]
Works
- Scholarship
- Ägypten und die Bücher Moses (1867–1868) [transl. as Egypt and the Book of Moses] (Editor)
- Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque (1879)
- Aegypten in Wort und Bild, 2nd ed., 1880)
- Palestine in Picture and Word (Palästina in Bild und Word), an 1884 translation of the English series Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt
- Richard Lepsius, ein Lebensbild (1885) [transl. as Richard Lepsius: A Biography (1887)]
- Lorenz Alma Tadema: His Life and Works (1886) [transl. Mary J. Safford, 1834-1891]
- Fiction - Egyptian
- Eine ägyptische Königstochter (1864) [An Egyptian Princess, transl. by Eleanor Grove] - Ebers' first novel
- Uarda: Roman aus dem alten Aegypten (1877) [Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt, transl. by Clara Bell]
- Homo sum (1878) [transl. by Clara Bell] - a novella about 4th century A.D. Christianity on the Sinai peninsula
- Die Schwestern (1880) [The Sisters, transl. by Clara Bell]
- Der Kaiser (1881) [The Emperor, transl. by Clara Bell] (Hadrian)
- Serapis, a Romance (1885) - a novel on the destruction of the Library of Alexandria
- Die Nilbraut (1887) [The Bride of the Nile]
- Kleopatra (1894) [Cleopatra]
- Arachne (1898) (transl. by Mary J. Safford]
- A Thorny Path (Per Aspera) (1892) [transl. by Clara Bell]
- Fiction - non-Egyptian
- Die Frau Bürgermeisterin (1882) [transl. by Mary J. Safford as The Burgomaster's Wife; a Tale of the Siege of Leyden]
- Die Gred (1887) [transl. by Clara Bell as Margery: A Tale of Old Nuremberg]
- Barbara Blomberg: A Historical Romance
- In the Blue Pike (Germany)
- Ein Wort [A Word, Only a Word, transl. Mary J. Safford] ("Black Forest in the 16th century. Gives terrible pictures of the persecutions and sufferings of the Jews."[9]
- Additional Fiction
- Eine Frage. Idyll zu einem Gemälde seines Freundes Alma Tadema [transl. A Question. The Idyll of a Picture by his Friend Alma Tadema by Mary J. Safford]
- Joshua: A Story of Biblical Times (1890)
- In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg [transl. by Mary J. Safford]
- Elixir, and Other Tales (fairy tales)
- In the Desert (1900) [transl. by Mary J. Safford]
- Elifen: A Dream of the Desert (verse)
- Short fiction
- The Greylock: A Fairy Tale
- The Nuts
- Memoir
- Die Geschichte meines Lebens [The Story of My Life from Childhood to Manhood] (Stuttgart, 1893)
- Collected Works
- Collected Works appeared in 25 volumes at Stuttgart (1893–1895)
See also
Notes
- ^ ISBN 9781443897662.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 841.
- ISBN 9781134690343(p. 97).
- ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 841–842.
- ISBN 9783764383350.
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 842.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
- ISBN 9783734054358.
- ^ The Literary News, Sept. 1898, pp. 272-274.
References
- Reynolds, Francis J., ed. (1921). Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company. .
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ebers, Georg Moritz". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 841–842. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- C.D. Merriman, "Georg Ebers", Online-Literature.com (Jalic) (2005)
- Obituary, San Francisco Call, Aug. 9, 1898 (v. 84, n. 70) (available at UCR.edu)
- "Georg Moritz Ebers", The Literary News, Sept. 1898, pp. 272–274
External links
- Works by Georg Ebers at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Georg Moritz Ebers at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by or about Georg Ebers at Internet Archive
- Works by Georg Ebers at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- The American Cyclopædia. 1879. .