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EBEL, HERMANN WILHELM (1820–1875)

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EBEL, See also:HERMANN WILHELM (1820–1875) , See also:German philologist, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the See also:roth of May 182o. He displayed in his See also:early years a remarkable capacity for the study of See also:languages, and at the same See also:time a passionate fondness for See also:music and See also:poetry. At the See also:age of sixteen he became a student at the university of Berlin, applying himself especially to See also:philology, and attending the lectures of See also:Bockh. Music continued to be the favourite occupation of his leisure See also:hours, and he pursued the study of it under the direction of See also:Marx. In the See also:spring of 1838 he passed to the university of See also:Halle, and there began to apply himself to See also:comparative philology under See also:Pott. Returning in the following See also:year to his native See also:city, he continued this study as a See also:disciple of See also:Bopp. He took his degree in 1842, and, after spending his year of See also:probation at the See also:French Gymnasium of Berlin, he resumed with See also:great earnestness his See also:language studies. About 1847 he began to study Old See also:Persian. In 1852 he accepted a professorship at the Beheim-Schwarzbach Institution at Filehne, which See also:post he held for six years. It was during this See also:period that his studies in the Old Slavic and See also:Celtic languages began. In 1858 he removed to See also:Schneidemuhl, and there he discharged the duties of first See also:professor for ten years. He was afterwards called to the See also:chair of comparative philology at the university of Berlin.

He died at Misdroy on the 19th of See also:

August 1875. The most important See also:work of Dr Ebel in the See also:field of Celtic philology is his revised edition of the Grammatica Celtica of Professor Zeuss, completed in 1871. This had been preceded by his treatises—De verbi Britannici futuro ac conjunctivo (1866), and De Zeussii curis positis in Grammatica Celtica (1869). He made many learned contributions to Kiihn's Zeitschrift See also:fur vergleichende Sprachforschung, and to A, See also:Schleicher's Beitrage zur vergleichenden Sprachforschung; and a selection of these contributions was translated into See also:English by See also:Sullivan, and published under the See also:title of Celtic Studies (1863). Ebel contributed the Old Irish See also:section to Schleicher's Indogermanische Chrestomathie (1869). Among his other See also:works must be named See also:Die Lehnworter der deutschen Sprache (1856).

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