Karl Egon Ebert

Karl Egon Ebert ( born June 5 () 1801 in Prague; ? † October 24, 1882 in Smichow in Prague ) was a German - Bohemian poet.

Karl Egon Ebert was the son of Prince bergischen residents in Bohemia and privy councilor Michael Ebert. He sat down in 1848 politically for the coexistence of the German and Czech cultures in Bohemia, and was a signatory to a corresponding invocation of Czech and German writers on March 21.

For Leopold Eugen Miechura ( tschech. also Měchura ) Ebert wrote the libretto for the opera " The Shield " for Joseph Dessauer to the " Lidwinna ".

Ebert's literary oeuvre was published in Prague in 1877 in seven volumes. Newer editions do not seem to give. His poems "The first violets " and " Travel Song " were set to music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.