Hermann Wilhelm Ebel
Hermann Wilhelm Ebel (May 10th, 1820 - August 19th, 1875) was a German Philologue, specialist in the Celtic Langues.
Ebel was born with Berlin. It shows in its first years a remarkable capacity for the study of the languages and, in same time, a great interest for the music and poetry. At the sixteen years age, it enters to the university of Berlin, and specializes in the study of philology, it follows the conferences of Philipp August Böckh. The music remains its favorite occupation during its free times and it continues its training of the music under the direction of the type-setter Joseph Marx.
In spring 1838, it goes to the university of Market and starts to study comparative philology under the direction of the theologist and linguist August Pott. Of return in its birthplace the following year, it continues the study of this discipline with the linguist and philologist Franz Bopp. It obtains its diploma in 1842 and, after having spent its year of probation in French Gymnasium of Berlin, it resumes its linguistic studies very seriously.
Towards 1847, it is interested old Persan. In 1852, it accepts a pulpit at the Beheim-Schwarzbach institute in Filehne, posts that it occupies during six years. It is for this period that it begins its its work on the proto-Slavic and the Celtic languages. In 1858, he moves with Schneidemühl, he achieves his obligations of first professor during ten years. He is then called with the pulpit of comparative philology at the university of Berlin. He dies in Misdroy on August 19th, 1875.
Work
The most important work of Ebel in the field of Celtic philology is the revision of the edition Grammatica Celtica of the professor Johann Kaspar Zeuss, completed in 1871. Previously, it had been devoted to two treaties verbi Britannici futuro ac conjunctivo (1866), and De Zeussii curis positis in Grammatica Celtica (1869). It contributed many shares to Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung of Adalbert Kuhn and to Beitrage zur vergleichenden Sprachforschung of August Schleicher; a selection of these contributions was translated into English by Sullivan and was published under the title of Celtic Studies in 1863. Ebel contributed to the section old Irish of Indogermanische Chrestomathie of Schleicher (1869). The majority of its other work are entitled Die Lehnworter DER deutschen Sprache (1856).
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