Hermann Wilhelm Ebel
Hermann Wilhelm Ebel ( born May 10, 1820 in Berlin, † August 19 1875 in Międzyzdroje ) was a German Keltologe.
At age eleven, Ebel came in 1831 in his hometown as a student at the High School to the gray monastery and was able to successfully complete his schooling in 1836.
That same year he enrolled at the Humboldt University, inter alia, for the subjects of history and classical philology. In the latter he became a student of Prof. August Boeckh. Two years later, Ebel joined the University in Halle / Saale; inter alia, to Prof. August Friedrich Pott, where Ebel studied comparative linguistics. Ebel 1839 returned back to the University of Berlin and finished his studies in 1842 with a doctorate in language scientist Prof. Franz Bopp.
Funded by his teachers, Ebel was already in the following year employment as a teacher at the French High School of Berlin. Later he moved to the Cöllnische Gymnasium ( also from Berlin ).
1852 appointed Ebel you as a teacher at the Schwarzbachsche Secondary College in Ostrowo at Filehne. Some time later, Ebel was transferred to the High School of Pila. 1872 appointed to Ebel to full professor and took him as a lecturer in comparative linguistics back to the University of Berlin; thus Ebel was his successor five years after the death of Franz Bopp.
At the age of 55 years, Prof. Hermann Ebel died on August 19, 1875 in the Baltic Sea Miedzyzdroje Wolin of a heart attack.
His numerous smaller treatises (mostly appeared in Adalbert Kuhn Journal of comparative linguistic research and in Kuhn's and August Schleicher's contributions, some as high school programs, including the treatise De verbi britannici futuro ac conjunctivo, Schneidemühl 1866) relate etymological and grammatical issues almost from the whole Indo-European language area, but especially in the field of Celtic languages ; its related to these languages works have also been translated into English (Celtic studies, London 1863).
His main work is the processing of new Zeuß ' Grammatica Celtica (Berlin, 1871). For Schleicher Indo Chrestomathy (Weimar 1869) he edited the Old Irish part. At the completion of a detailed Old Irish dictionary he was prevented by death. By Ebel founded by Bopp and Johann Kaspar Zeuß scientific study of Celtic in comparison to the other Indo-European languages in every direction is toward expanded and deepened.