Georg Karl Wilhelm Adolf Ebert (1 June 1820, in

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, northern Hesse, in Central Germany (geography), central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel (region), Kassel and the d ...

– 1 July 1890, in

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) was a Romance philologist and literary historian. He was an author of literary studies as well as a publisher of periodicals, including the ''

Jahrbuch für Romanische und Englische Literatur The ''Jahrbuch für Romanische und Englische Literatur'' was an annual publication containing articles on literature in the Romance and English languages. The periodical was founded and edited by Adolf Ebert and Ferdinand Wolf. The journal was ...

''. Ebert studied in Marburg, Leipzig, Göttingen, and Berlin between 1840 and 1843, was appointed as professor at the

University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg () is a public research university located in Marburg, Germany. It was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Prote ...

, and in 1862 came to occupy the newly founded chair of Romance philology at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...

. With Ferdinand Wolf he founded and edited the ''

'', until 1863, when it was taken over by Ludwig Lemcke. He was the author of the three volum
''Allgemeine Geschichte der Literatur des Mittelalters im Abendlande''
("General history of literature of the Middle Ages in the West").

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