EBERT, ADOLF (182o-189o), German romance philologist, was born at Kassel on June 1, 1820. He was professor of romance languages in Marburg, and from 1862 onwards in Leipzig, where he died on July 1, 1890. He wrote a standard work on mediaeval literature, which is still indispensable to the student and has been the basis of much subsequent work by later writers, Allgemeine Geschichte der Literatur im Abendlande (3 vols., 1884-87). From 1859-63 he edited, with F. Wolf, the Jahrbuch fur romanische and englische Literatur.