Georg Ebers
1837–1898
Biography
Georg Ebers was a German scholar of ancient Egypt who also wrote novels, and he lived from 1837 to 1898. He held academic posts in German universities and devoted much of his scholarship to ancient Egypt. He is still remembered for buying the Ebers Papyrus, a medical text written around 1550 BCE that historians of medicine study as one of the oldest such documents known.
Ebers was unusual in joining scholarship and fiction. Many of his novels are set in ancient Egypt, and they carry readers into the courts and streets of the pharaonic age with the detail of a specialist. One of his best-known books, An Egyptian Princess (in German, Eine ägyptische Königstochter, 1864), reached a broad public. His historical romances were widely translated, and they helped shape how nineteenth-century European readers imagined ancient Egypt.
The site holds Eene Egyptische Koningsdochter, the Dutch edition of An Egyptian Princess, with Hendrik Cornelis Rogge credited as translator. It lets readers meet one of his historical romances in the kind of translation that carried his fiction across Europe.
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Books
Eene Egyptische Koningsdochter: Historische Roman van George Ebers
by Georg Ebers (translated by Hendrik Cornelis Rogge)
Nitetis, daughter of the Egyptian king Amasis, is sent to Babylon as a bride for the Persian king Cambyses. Among jealous courtiers, Greek adventurers and an embittered Egyptian physician, Ebers recreates the courts of Egypt and Persia in the sixth century BC, here in H. C.…
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