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EBERT, FRIEDRICH ADOLF (1791-1834)

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EBERT, See also:FRIEDRICH ADOLF (1791-1834) , See also:German bibliographer, was See also:born at Taucha, near See also:Leipzig, on the 9th of See also:July 1791, the son of a Lutheran pastor. At the See also:age of fifteen he was appointed to a subordinate See also:post in the municipal library of Leipzig. He studied See also:theology for a See also:short See also:time at Leipzig, and afterwards See also:philology at See also:Wittenberg, where he graduated See also:doctor in See also:philosophy in 1812. While still a student he had already published, in 1811, a See also:work on public See also:libraries, and in 1812 another work entitled Hierarchiae in religionem ac literas commoda. In 1813 he was attached to the Leipzig University library, and in 1814 was appointed secretary to the Royal library of See also:Dresden. The same See also:year he published F. Taubmanns Leben and Verdienste, and in 1819 Torquato See also:Tasso, a See also:translation from See also:Pierre See also:Louis Ginguene with annotations. The See also:rich resources open to him in the Dresden library enabled him to undertake the work on which his reputation chiefly rests, the Allgemeines bibliographisches Lexikon, the first See also:volume of which appeared in 1821 and the second in 183o. This was the first work of the See also:kind produced in See also:Germany, and the most scientific published anywhere. From 1823 to 1825 Ebert was librarian to the See also:duke of See also:Brunswick at Wolfenbiittel, but returning to Dresden was made, in 1827, See also:chief librarian of the Dresden Royal library. Among his other See also:works are—Die Bildung See also:des Bibliothekars (1820), Geschichte and Beschreibung der koniglichen ojentlichen Bibliothek in Dresden (1822), Zur Handschriftenkunde (1825-1827), and Culturperioden des obersachsischen Mittelalters (1825). Ebert was a contributor to various See also:journals and took See also:part in the editing of See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's See also:great See also:encyclopaedia.

He died at Dresden on the 13th of See also:

November 1834, in consequence of a fall from the See also:ladder in his library. See the See also:article in Ersch and Grubers Encyclopadie, and that in the Allg. deutsche; Biog. by his successor in the post of chief librarian in Dresden, Schnorr von Carolsfeld.

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