Ebeling was born in
Zaandam on 8 February 1924. He finished his in Slavic languages at the University of Amsterdam in 1947. He then moved to the United States and studied Slavic languages at
Harvard University and obtained his PhD there under
Roman Jakobson in 1950 with a thesis titled:
The parts of the sentence in modern Russian: a structural analysis. Ebeling returned to the Netherlands and from 1955 to 1960 he was professor of Slavic languages. He subsequently became professor of both Slavic and Baltic languages. He retired in 1985. Ebeling was elected a member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979. Ebeling died in
Graft on 24 February 2017. ==References==