Eberhard

Eberhard, AUGUST GOTTLOB, a well-known German writer, was born at Belzig in 1769, studied first theology at Leipzig, then devoted himself to a busy life as a man of letters at Halle, Hamburg, and lastly at Dresden, where he died, 13th May 1845. Eberhard's literary reputation depends upon his Hannchen und die Küchlein (1822), an idyll which has been translated into many languages, and is still popular, and his long poem in hexameters, Der Erste Mensch und die Erde (1828). His collected works fill 20 vols. (1830-31).