Friedrich Adolf Ebert

At the age of fifteen, Friedrich was appointed to a subordinate post in the municipal library of Leipzig.

In 1812, he published another work entitled Hierarchiae in religionem ac literas commoda, which roughly translates to "Hierarchy in religion and letters advantages.

The same year, he published F. Taubmanns Leben und Verdienste and in 1819 Torquato Tasso, a translation from Pierre Louis Ginguené with annotations.

[1] 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 Lexikon, the first volume of which appeared in 1821 and the second in 1830.

Among his other works are: Ebert was a contributor to various journals and took part in the editing of Ersch and Gruber's great encyclopedia.