Educated at Keilhaus Institute and Gottingen University. Developing an early interest in Egyptology, Ebers produced his first novel, An Egyptian Princess, in 1863. A treatise on Egypt and the Book of Moses won him a professorship at Gottingen in 1864 which he held until 1889. Ebers visited Egypt a number of times and discovered a papyrus which now bears his name. He wrote a large number of historical novels with Egypt as a backdrop, such as Uarda (1877), Homo Sum (1877), The Bride of the Nile (1886) and Cleopatra (1894). His other works, which are also of an historical nature, included The Burgomaster's Wife (1881) and Barbara Blomberg (1897). |
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