Adolf Ebert

Georg Karl Wilhelm Adolf Ebert ( born June 1, 1820 Kassel, † July 1, 1890 in Leipzig) was a German literary historian and linguist.

Life

Ebert 1840-43 studied in Marburg, Leipzig, Göttingen and Berlin, then a professor at the University of Marburg and appointed in 1863 to the newly founded chair of Romance Linguistics at Leipzig.

With Mr. Wolf he published the Yearbook of Romanesque and English language and literature, limited in association with Ferdinand Wolf by Adolf Ebert (Berlin, later Leipzig 1859-63, 5 vols; continued by Louis Lemcke to 1876 ) out of which it among other things appeared: The English mysteries ( Vol.1 ) and the oldest Italian mysteries (Vol. 5).

He was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and in 1878 participated in the founding of the fraternity Plessavia.

Works

• Source research of the history of Spain. Kassel 1849
• Handbook of Italian national literature, historical ordered anthology of poetry and prose from the oldest to the most recent times; together with an outline of literary history. Marburg 1854
• Developmental history of French tragedy primarily in XVI. Century.. Gotha 1856 (reprint: Genève: Slatkine, 1970. )
• Tertullian's relation to Minucius Felix. Including: In addition to an annex About Commodian 's Carmen Apologeticum. Leipzig 1868
• General history of the literature of the Middle Ages in the West. Leipzig 1874-80, Vol 1 and 2 reprint Graz (Austria ): Akademische Druck-u ET School Pa., nd
• De syntaxi Frontoniana. Erlangen 1881.