, who was born at Hamburgh Feb. 8, 1725, is ranked among the revivers
, who was born at Hamburgh
Feb. 8, 1725, is ranked among the revivers of true literary
taste in Germany, in which undertaking, he associated
with Gartner, Schlegel, Cramer, Gellert, Rabener, Schmidt,
Klopstock, &c. who used to communicate their works to
each other, and diffuse various knowledge by means of
periodical papers. Ebert was professor of the Carolinean
Institute at Brunswick, and in high esteem with the duke,
who made him a canon of St. Cyriac, and afterwards conferred on him the title of counsellor. He wrote with equal
elegance in prose and verse, and his songs are much esteemed in Germany. Besides many contributions to the
periodical journals, he published two volumes of “Poems
”
at Hamburgh, the one in Night Thoughts,
” and Glover’s “Leonklas,
” both which,
we are told, are well executed. This writer died at
Brunswick March 19, 1795.