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Georg Moritz Ebers (
Berlin,
March 1,
1837 –
Tutzing,
Bavaria,
August 7,
1898), German
Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the
Egyptian medical papyrus, of
ca 1550 BCE, named for him (see
Ebers papyrus) at
Luxor (
Thebes) in the winter of 1873–74. Now in the library of the
University of Leipzig, the
Ebers papyrus is among the most important
ancient Egyptian medical papyri. It is one of two of the oldest preserved medical documents anywhere, the other main source being the
Edwin Smith papyrus (c. 1600 BCE).
At
Göttingen he studied jurisprudence, and at Berlin Oriental languages and archaeology. Having made a special study of Egyptology, he became in
1865 Dozent in Egyptian language and antiquities at
Jena, and in
1870 he was appointed professor in these subjects at
Leipzig. He had made two scientific journeys to
Egypt, and his first work of importance,
Ägypten und die Bücher Moses, appeared in
1867–
1868. In
1874 he edited the celebrated medical papyrus (Papyrus Ebers) which he'd discovered in Thebes (translation by H. Joachim, 1890).
Ebers early conceived the idea of popularizing Egyptian lore by means of historical romances.
Eine ägyptische Königstochter 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
Hadrian,
Serapis (
1885),
Die Nilbraut (
1887), and
Kleopatra (
1894), were also well received, and did much to make the public familiar with the discoveries of Egyptologists. Ebers also turned his attention to other fields of historical fiction—especially the 16th century (
Die Frau Bürgermeisterin, 1882;
Die Gred, 1887)—without, however, attaining the success of his Egyptian novels.
His other writings include a descriptive work on Egypt (
Aegypten in Wort und Bild, 2nd ed.,
1880), a guide to Egypt (
1886) and a life (
1885) of his old teacher, the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius. The state of his health led him in
1889 to retire from his chair at Leipzig on a pension.
Ebers's
Gesammelte Werke appeared in 25 vols. 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).
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