Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Ebers, Georg Moritz

EBERS, GEORG MORITZ (ā'bers), a German Egyptologist and novelist; born in Berlin, March 1, 1837; was educated at Froebel's school, and studied law at Göttingen. He afterward devoted himself to the study of Egyptology at Berlin. He established himself in 1865 as a lecturer at Jena, where in 1868 he was made professor. Next year he made a long journey to the East, and

in 1870 was called to Leipzig as Professor of Egyptology. His visit to Egypt resulted in the discovery of the celebrated hieratic medical &ldquo;Papyrus Ebers&rdquo; which he published in 1875. His series of historical romances comprise in sequence: &ldquo;An Egyptian Princess&rdquo; (1864); &ldquo;Uarda&rdquo; (1877); &ldquo;Homo Sum&rdquo; (1878); &ldquo;The Sisters&rdquo; (1879); &ldquo;The Emperor&rdquo; (1880); &ldquo;Serapis&rdquo; (1885); &ldquo;The Bride of the Nile&rdquo; (1886); &ldquo;Joshua&rdquo; (1889); &ldquo;Per Aspera&rdquo; (1892); &ldquo;Cleopatra&rdquo; (1894); and &ldquo;Eli fên,&rdquo; in verse (1888). He wrote several other historical novels; including &ldquo;The Burgomaster's Wife&rdquo; (1881). He died near Munich, Bavaria, Aug. 8, 1898.