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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 being the ''Edwin Smith Papyrus'' (''ca.'' 1600 BCE). ==Biography== 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, becoming professor in 1868. 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 had 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); ''Palestine in Picture and Word'' (''ドイツ語:Palästina in Bild und Word''), an 1884 translation of the English series ''Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt''; a life (1885) of his old teacher, the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius; and a guide to Egypt (1886). 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). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Georg Ebers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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