EBERT, FRIEDRICH ADOLF German bibliographer, was born at Taucha, near Leipzig, on July 9, 1791, the son of a Lutheran pastor. In 1813 he was attached to the Leipzig University library, and in 1814 was appointed secretary to the Royal library of Dresden and, in 1827, after a short period of absence, chief librarian. The rich resources open to him in the Dresden library enabled him to undertake the work on which his reputation chiefly rests, the Allgemeines bibliographisches Lexi kon (2 vols. 1821-30). This was the first work of the kind pro duced in Germany, and the most scientific published anywhere. Ebert was a contributor to various journals and took part in the editing of Ersch and Gruber's great encyclopaedia. He died at Dresden on Nov. 13, 1834, in consequence of a fall from the ladder in his library.
See the article in Ersch and Grubers Encyclopddie, and that in the Allg. deutsche Biog. by his successor in the post of chief librarian at Dresden, Schnorr von Carolsfeld.