EBBW VALE, rid A town of :Mon mouthshire. England, about miles west-south west of Abergavennv, in the centre of a coal and iron mining district (Map: England, D 5). Population, in 1591. 17,300; iu 1901. 21,000.
EBE, TVbe, GUSTAV (1834). German ar chitect, born at Halberstadt. Ile studied in Ber lin, and then traveled in France and Italy. In company with Julius renda, with whom he was associated in Berlin, he executed plans for the Vienna Rathaus, which obtained the first prize in competition, but were not executed. lle WW1 later active in Berlin. where he designed nu merous, structures, including the Ticle-Winckler Palace (the headquarters of the Spanish em bassy), and the pollo Theatre. He is also the author of a work on art, nit' put 1.1 nu issusav (1886). a history of European art from the middle of the sixteenth century to the end of the eight cent Ii.
EBEL, ;Owl, IltatmANN WILifEut (1820-75), a German Celtic scholar. He was horn in Berlin, was educated at Halle, and was a member of the philological faculty of the Berlin University from I87 to 1875. He was the foremost au thority on Celtic philosophy in Germany, and Ii is researches on the grammatical construction and lexicography of Irish, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, Breton. and ancient Gaelic give hint a permanent place in the field of philology. Besides his prin
cipal work. a new and improved edition of Zeuss's arammatica CeDira (18'711, he published Dc Verbi Britannic/ future ac (1863: partly translated into English by W. K. Sullivan under the title Celtic Studies), and Dc Zeusii Curis Positis in Granonatica Celtic(' (1869).
EBEL, on.ksN t:orrmuro (1764-1830). A German writer on geography. born at Ztillichan. Prussian Silesia, and educated at the University of Frankfort-on-the-Oder. His translation of the works of and his (dose association with certain revolutionary leaders of France, made him unpopular with the authorities of Frank fort-on-the-Main, and in 1796 he was banished from that city. where lie had begun a medical practice. Ito subsequently lived in Paris and in Zurich, where his services in behalf of the main tenance of the Swiss Republic. which was en dangered by the prevailing political conditions, were rewarded by an offer of citizenship on the part of the municipality of Zurich, in which city he spent the last years of his life. His principal works are the following: .1nleitung ("of die niitzlichste J rt die i+ehirriz, zu bcreiscn (8th ed. 1842) ; and l'rber den Bas der Erde in den. Al (18051 .