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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Georg Ebers
![Georg Ebers](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: March 1, 1837
Died: August 7, 1898 (aged 61)
Bio: Georg Moritz Ebers, German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him at Luxor in the winter of 1873 74.
Known for:
- An Egyptian Princess (1864)
- A thorny path (Per aspera)
- Homo sum (1880)
- The bride of the Nile (1886)
- The burgomaster's wife (1882)