Early Life, Family and Training Hermann Ebers was born on 21 June 1881 in Leipzig. He grew up in a household shaped by intellectual pursuits, as his father was the Egyptologist and novelist Georg Ebers and his mother was Antonie Beck, born Loesevitz. His upbringing took him through the gymnasiums of Tutzing and Munich, where the foundations of his formal education were laid. The pull toward visual arts became a central part of his li…