Background
He was the son of pharmacist/physician Johann Erdwin Christoph Ebermaier (1768-1825).
He was the son of pharmacist/physician Johann Erdwin Christoph Ebermaier (1768-1825).
In 1824 he received his medical doctorate in Berlin, afterwards settling into a medical practice in Düsseldorf. During his career he served as a medical adviser and as a privy councilor. The plant genus Ebermaiera (family Acanthaceae) is named after him.
He collaborated with botanist Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck (1787-1837) on the textbook "Handbuch der medicinisch-pharmaceutischen Botanik".