The Story of My Life — Volume 02
1892
The Story of My Life — Volume 02
1892
Translated by Mary J. (Mary Joanna) Safford
Georg Ebers, the celebrated Egyptologist who once held the chair of Egyptology at the University of Leipzig, turns his meticulous scholar's eye inward in this second volume of his autobiography. Here he reconstructs the private history behind the public man: a childhood spent in the artistic and intellectual circles of Germany, where young Georg absorbed the craftsmanship of sculptors like Drake and Streichenberg, and the revolutionary ferment of an era building toward the explosions of 1848. These pages trace the formation of a mind that would one day translate ancient hieroglyphics and spin bestselling novels about pharaohs. Ebers writes with the same atmospheric richness he brought to his historical fiction, rendering family outings and childhood friendships with the same evocative care he once gave to the courts of Cleopatra. The memoir offers a rare window into 19th-century German intellectual life, the generation that came of age before unification, and the private origins of a man who would become one of the era's most famous scholars. For readers drawn to the genre of intellectual autobiography, or those curious about the human being behind the Egyptology.
