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 northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

– 1 July 1890, in Leipzig) 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 Georg Karl Wilhelm Adolf Ebert (1 June ...

''. Ebert studied in Marburg, Leipzig, Göttingen, and Berlin between 1840 and 1843, was appointed as professor at the University of Marburg, and in 1862 came to occupy the newly founded chair of Romance philology at the University of Leipzig. With

Ferdinand Wolf Ferdinand Wolf (8 December 1796, Vienna – 18 February 1866, Vienna) was a scholar of Romance studies from Austria. He was an author of literary studies as well as a publisher of periodicals, including the ''Jahrbuch für Romanische und Eng ...

he founded and edited the ''

'', until 1863, when it was taken over by

Ludwig Lemcke Ludwig Lemcke (25 December 1816 in Brandenburg an der Havel – 21 September 1884 in Giessen) was a German Romance philologist and literary historian. He studied history, philology and languages at the University of Berlin, and from 1841 worke ...

. 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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