Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter E

Was a German philologist. He was born at Elbing, Prussia, and was educated at Königsberg, where he

Was a German philologist. He was born at Elbing, Prussia, and was educated at Königsberg, where he became professor of the German language in 1824. A pupil of Jacob Grimm and Karl Lachmann, he followed in the footsteps of these eminent scholars, and produced several philological works distinguished by careful research, such as his valuable discussion on Old High German, entitled Althochdeutscher Sprachschatz (6 vols., 1835-43).

Was a public health researcher, a co-founder of the WWW Virtual Library: Public Health, and an advoc

Was a public health researcher, a co-founder of the WWW Virtual Library: Public Health, and an advocate of the socio-ecological view of health promotion as described in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. He was a Senior Lecturer of International Health at Griffith University, and Deputy Director of Queensland Centre for Public Health. Griffith University's "Eberhard Wenzel Scholarship for International Public Health" and The Australian Health Promotion Association's "Eberhard Wenzel Memorial Oration" are named in his honour.

Was Sri Lankan playwright, novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist and social commentator. Conside

Was Sri Lankan playwright, novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist and social commentator. Considered Sri Lanka's premier playwright, he was a senior lecturer at the University of Peradeniya for many years and served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to France ( 1974 - 1977). His first play was Maname, which is generally considered the first real Sinhala drama, signalling the transition from the Nadagam or folk drama to the modern theatrical drama format. Most of his plays were adaptations from Buddhist Jathakas or Sinhala folklore giving his work instant and lasting popularity with the population that identified with their roots.

Was a French academic and photographer who championed physical culture. He made physical education f

Was a French academic and photographer who championed physical culture. He made physical education fashionable in belle époque France through the publication of fitness journals and by opening a chain of exercise clubs.

Was a French medievalist. He became in 1924 Professor of Latin literature at the Collège de France.

Was a French medievalist. He became in 1924 Professor of Latin literature at the Collège de France. He wrote his dissertation on the jongleurs, and E. R. Curtius states that he was the first to recognize an influence of the medieval Latin poetics and rhetoric on Old French poetry[1].

Is a football coach and former international player.Malofeyev played for Avandard Kolomna (1960), Sp

Is a football coach and former international player.Malofeyev played for Avandard Kolomna (1960), Spartak Moscow (1961-1962) and Dynamo Minsk (1963-1972). In 1962 he won the Soviet championship with Spartak.

Was an American professor of mathematics and computer science and the inventor of the Moore finite s

Was an American professor of mathematics and computer science and the inventor of the Moore finite state machine.Moore received a B.S. in chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, VA in 1947 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Brown University in Providence, RI in June 1950. He worked at UIUC from 1950 to 1952 and was a visiting lecturer at MIT and Harvard simultaneously in 1952 and 1953.

Is the Roy A. Brothers University Research Professor[2] and Director of the Center for Educational R

Is the Roy A. Brothers University Research Professor[2] and Director of the Center for Educational Research at Drexel University. He is a member of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Professor Fromm received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel in 1962, a Masters in Engineering also from Drexel in 1964, and his Ph.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1967.[1][2] He worked as in engineer in the Missile and Space Division of General Electric in 1962, then at the Applied Physics Laboratory at DuPont Company in Wilmington Delaware, 1963; he began working at Drexel as an assistant professor in 1967. In 2002 he became the first recipient of the National Academy of Engineering's Gordon Prize, considered to be one of the Nobel Prizes of Engineering[3] — the others being the Academies Russ Prize and Draper Prize. Professor Fromm was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.[4]

Is a French philosopher and writer[1]. She is a professor of philosophy in Caen. Abécassis was born

Is a French philosopher and writer[1]. She is a professor of philosophy in Caen. Abécassis was born in Strasbourg. Her first book, Qumran, was released in 1996 after three years of research, and has been translated into eighteen languages. Her second title, L'Or et la cendre, details the historical and mysterious murder of a Berlin theologian. Murder also figures high in her 1998 work on the philosophical origins of homicide entitled Petite Métaphysique du meurtre

Is a German soprano and academic teacher. She has appeared with local choirs of the Rhein Main area.

Is a German soprano and academic teacher. She has appeared with local choirs of the Rhein Main area. In 1998 she sang with her brother Andreas Scholl in Bach's St Matthew Passion in St. Martin, Idstein, with Max Ciolek as the Evangelist and Max van Egmond as the Vox Christi [2] In 2008 she appeared there as soprano II in Mozart's Great Mass in C minor.[3] In 2009 she was the soprano soloist (Gabriel, Eve) in Haydn's Die Schöpfung with Daniel Sans (Uriel), Andreas Pruys (Raphael, Adam) and the Neue Rheingauer Kantorei in the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg.[4] In 2010 she sang with her brother in Handel's Messiah in the Marktkirche, Wiesbaden, with Andreas Karasiak and the Wiesbadener Knabenchor.[5]

Is an Australian neurologist, professor of neurology at Monash University

Is an Australian neurologist, professor of neurology at Monash University

Is a Polish full professor of statistics[1], activist of disability rights movement.M.Sc in mathemat

Is a Polish full professor of statistics[1], activist of disability rights movement.M.Sc in mathematics at Warsaw University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in 1956. She held position at Institute of Mathematics PAS until 1972.[1] She recei

Was a German canonist. The new critical edition of the Corpus Juris Canonici (1879-81) was prepared

Was a German canonist. The new critical edition of the Corpus Juris Canonici (1879-81) was prepared by Friedberg, as was also the Formelbuch des deutschen Handels-, Wechsel-, und Seerechts (third edition, 1894). Alike in his collaboration in the Prussian church laws of 1872 and as an author, he showed himself a champion of state supremacy in ecclesiastical matters

Was a German Hebrew scholar and biblical critic, born at Plauen, Saxony. He was educated at Leipzig,

Was a German Hebrew scholar and biblical critic, born at Plauen, Saxony. He was educated at Leipzig, in whose theological faculty he was appointed privatdocent (1869) and professor (1871). Subsequently he held chairs at Basel (1872-80) and Tübingen (1880-88) and received a professorship at Halle in 1888. Kautzsch traveled to Ottoman Palestine in 1876, and he became one of the founding members of the Palestine Exploration Society of Germany the following year.[1] He was also one of the editors of the Theologische Studien und Kritiken, beginning in 1888.

Was an Argentine painter of the post-impressionist school.Emilio Caraffa was born in Catamarca, Arge

Was an Argentine painter of the post-impressionist school.Emilio Caraffa was born in Catamarca, Argentina, in 1862. His family relocated to Rosario, where he attended the local National College (a system of public college preparatory schools), and learned to draw and sketch. He received lessons in painting in Buenos Aires from 1883 to 1884, an experience which earned him a scholarship from the Minister of Justice and Culture, Eduardo Wilde. Caraffa attended art academies in Naples and Rome, as well as in Madrid's Royal Fine Arts Academy of San Fernando, where he studied under Francisco Pradilla and was inducted into the Order of Charles III, in 1887.[1] Returning to Argentina in 1890, Caraffa relocated to Córdoba, where in 1896, he received authorization from the progressive Governor of Córdoba Province, José Figueroa Alcorta, to establish the Provincial Fine Arts Academy.[2] Caraffa was appointed a professor at the Córdoba National University in 1900.[1]

Was an astrophysicist. Harlaftis obtained an undergraduate degree in physics at the University of At

Was an astrophysicist. Harlaftis obtained an undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Athens in 1987, and a Ph.D. degree at the University of Oxford in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a support astronomer at the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, placed at the Observatory of Roque de los Muchachos (owned by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias at the island of La Palma. He then worked as a research assistant (1995–1997) at the University of St. Andrews and as a research fellow (1997–1998) at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National Observatory of Athens.

Is a Greek lexicographer and philologist, he is Emeritus Professor of the School of Philosophy at th

Is a Greek lexicographer and philologist, he is Emeritus Professor of the School of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. A student of Jean Psychari and the practice and ideology of demotic Greek, his work encompasses all the language matters of Greek and of Greece.

Was a distinguished Argentine academic, physician and inventor.Enrique Finochietto was born in 1881

Was a distinguished Argentine academic, physician and inventor.Enrique Finochietto was born in 1881 in Buenos Aires to Tomas and Ana Finochietto, immigrants from Tuscany Region of Italy. His father died during his early childhood, and he was raised mostly by his mother. He excelled in industrial design while in secondary school, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires in 1897.[1]Finochietto interned at the university's Clinical Hosptal, becoming an assistant to a noted surgeon, Dr. Alejandro Posadas. His thesis, El Pie-Bot Varus-Equino-Congénito, earned him a medical degree with honors, in 1904.[2] He entered the Clinic of Skin and Venereal Diseases, a dependency of Buenos Aires' important Rawson Hospital, as a surgical intern.

Is a German biologist and geneticist. Geißler was a professor for genetics at the University of Ros

Is a German biologist and geneticist. Geißler was a professor for genetics at the University of Rostock. Between 1965 and 1971 he was dean of the university. Subsequently he was head of department at the Zentralinstitut für Molekularbiologie of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, from 1992 till 2000 at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine. Furthermore he has been working for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute since 1983.[1]

Was a German choral conductor, conducting the Thomanerchor as the fourteenth Thomaskantor since Joha

Was a German choral conductor, conducting the Thomanerchor as the fourteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also an academic and a composer. In 1925 he became director of the Aachener Bachverein, in 1928 a teacher at the Musikhochschule Mainz and a cantor at the Christuskirche Mainz. From 1930 he was cantor at the Georgenkirche in Eisenach. In 1932 he started teaching at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar, appointed Professor for choral conducting in 1946. Since 1950 he directed the Thüringer Kirchenmusikhochschule in Eisenach.

A psychiatrist, a neuroscientist and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the Columbia Univer

A psychiatrist, a neuroscientist and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Is a Dutch professor of systematic theology at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands. At the Ra

Is a Dutch professor of systematic theology at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands. At the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, he was the Director of the Heyendaal Institute, an institute for interdisciplinary research. He is the biographer of the Flemish theologian Edward Schillebeeckx. He was also the President of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture. He is Editor of Concilium: International Journal for Theology and of the Dutch Tijdschrift voor Theologie.

Was a German-born American football player and coach who starred as a defensive tackle with the Pitt

Was a German-born American football player and coach who starred as a defensive tackle with the Pittsburgh Steelers.Born in Prinzing-by-Cham, Bavaria in Germany, Stautner's family immigrated to Albany, New York when he was three years old. He served in the United States Marine Corps before attending Boston College, where he was a four-year starter as an offensive and defensive tackle. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1950.

Was a French medievalist, professor at the University of Lille. was a French medievalist, professor

Was a French medievalist, professor at the University of Lille. was a French medievalist, professor at the University of Lille. He is best known for his 1910 work Les manuscrits du Roman de la Rose, description et classement, on the manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose[1] and subsequent five-volume edition Le Roman de la Rose par Guillaume de Loris et Jean de Meun. This latter work was for the Société des anciens textes français, and was a reconstruction into the supposed dialect of Orléans of the time; the work is regarded as uneven, with judicious choice of readings but arbitrary corrections of orthography[2].

Was an Argentine historian and part of a generation of right-wing nationalist intellectuals active f

Was an Argentine historian and part of a generation of right-wing nationalist intellectuals active from the 1920s.Palacio, who was educated at the University of Buenos Aires, was a founder of the avant-garde magazine Martin Fierro and began his political life as an anarchist. However he was attracted to nationalism because the movement promised regeneration of Argentine society and at the same time he became a fervent follower of the Roman Catholic Church.[1] The main influence in his conversion was Ramiro de Maeztu, of whose writings Palacio became a follower.[2]