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EBEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1764–1830)

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EBEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1764–1830) , the author of the first real See also:guide-See also:book to See also:Switzerland, was See also:born at Zullichau (See also:Prussia). He became a medical See also:man, visited Switzerland for the first See also:time in 1790, and became so enamoured of it that he spent three years exploring the See also:country and See also:collecting all kinds of See also:information See also:relating to it. The result was the publication (See also:Zurich, 1793) of his Anleitung auf See also:die nutzlichste and genussvollste See also:Art in der Schweitz zu reisen (2 vols.), in which he gave a See also:complete See also:account of the country, the See also:General Information sections being followed by an alphabetically arranged See also:list of places, with descriptions. It at once superseded all other See also:works of the See also:kind, and was the best Swiss guide-book till the See also:appearance of " See also:Murray " (1838). It was particularly strong on the See also:geological and See also:historical sides. The second (1804–1805) and third (1809–181o) See also:editions filled four volumes, but the following (the 8th appeared in 1843) were in a single See also:volume. The See also:work was translated into See also:French in 1795 (many later editions) and into See also:English (by 1818). Ebel also published a work (2 vols., See also:Leipzig, 1798–1802) entitled Schilderungen der Gebirgsvolker der Schweiz, which deals mainly with the See also:pastoral cantons of See also:Glarus and See also:Appenzell. In 18or he was naturalized a Swiss See also:citizen, and settled down in Zurich. In 18o8 he issued his See also:chief geological work, Uber den Bau der Erde See also:im Alpengebirge (Zurich, 2 vols.). He took an active See also:share in promoting all that could make his adopted country better known, e.g. Heinrich See also:Keller's See also:map (1813), the See also:building of a hotel on the Rigi (1816), and the preparation of a See also:panorama from that point (1823).

From 1810 onwards he lived at Zurich, with the See also:

family of his friend, See also:Conrad Escher von der See also:Linth (1767–1823), the celebrated engineer. (W. A. B.

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