Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter K

Is a German countertenor and a teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. Kai Wessel started singin

Is a German countertenor and a teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. Kai Wessel started singing in school choirs and as a boy soprano at the Christus-Kirche of Hamburg-Wandsbek and received lessons on piano, organ and oboe. He studied to become a composer at the Lübeck Academy of Music but then concentrated on training his countertenor voice with Ute von Garczynski. He studied baroque performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with René Jacobs.[1]

Was a Chinese scholar, noted calligrapher and political reformist.

Was a Chinese scholar, noted calligrapher and political reformist.

Is a Dutch journalist, writer and professor, who is particularly recognised for his knowledge of Jap

Is a Dutch journalist, writer and professor, who is particularly recognised for his knowledge of Japanese politics, economics, history and culture.[1][2]After finishing high school, he traveled to the Middle East, India and South East Asia, and from 1962 until the 1990's he was based in Japan. In 1972 he became a correspondent for the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, reporting from many countries in Asia. In 1987 he received the highest Dutch award for journalism for his articles on the People Power Revolution of 1986 in the Philippines[3] (an uprising which forced President Ferdinand Marcos to flee the country).

Was a Finnish legal scholar. He was Professor of Finance Law at the University of Helsinki and one o

Was a Finnish legal scholar. He was Professor of Finance Law at the University of Helsinki and one of Finland's leading experts on taxation.Tikka was a member of several law preparation work groups, and had a central influence in the development of Finnish taxation law. Among his achievements are the system for refunding corporate tax, which was later abandoned,

West Pomeranian Voivodeship Szczecinek County then part of Germany, today Poland. Recently Schachtsc

West Pomeranian Voivodeship Szczecinek County then part of Germany, today Poland. Recently Schachtschneider has made several public lectures and talks on the un-constitutionality of the Lisbon treaty, on its many problems, including the backdoor reintroduction of the death penalty into the EU in peace time, something expressly forbidden in most of Europes democracies, as Schachtschneider has been one of the very few to actually point out and voice an opinion of for a steadily increasing Euro-skeptic movement that has branches and relatively large organisations in all European countries ("Nej til EU", Sweden. "Juni-bevegelsen", Denmark ) and so on.

Was a German historian of literature, an author, and a professor. He was born at Celle and was educa

Was a German historian of literature, an author, and a professor. He was born at Celle and was educated at Göttingen, where he was professor from 1873 until his death. After writing several novels and the drama König Kodrus, eine Missgeburt der Zeit, under the pseudonym Karl Stahl, he devoted himself to critical and biographical literature. His publications include:

Was a German linguist and scholar, and a leading Romanist.[1] Vossler was known for his interest in

Was a German linguist and scholar, and a leading Romanist.[1] Vossler was known for his interest in Italian thought, and as a follower of Benedetto Croce. He declared his support of the German military by signing the Manifesto of the Ninety-Three in 1914.

Is a German professor of Religious Studies and the History of Christianity at the University of Saar

Is a German professor of Religious Studies and the History of Christianity at the University of Saarland, Germany. He is the co-editor with Gerd Rudiger Puin of the book Die dunklen Anfänge. Neue Forschungen zur Entstehung und frühen Geschichte des Islam ("The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research Into Its Early History", Hans Schiller Verlag, 2005 / Prometheus Books 2008), which argues that Islam was not originally conceived as a distinct religion.

Is Professor and Chair of Second Language Studies at Indiana University (Bloomington).Her primary re

Is Professor and Chair of Second Language Studies at Indiana University (Bloomington).Her primary research interests are second-language temporality and tense-mood-aspect systems and interlanguage pragmatics. Professor Bardovi-Harlig currently serves as First Vice President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (2005-2009).

Was a Polish scholar and specialist of the electric machines and of electrochemistry, professor of t

Was a Polish scholar and specialist of the electric machines and of electrochemistry, professor of the universities of Lvov, Silesia and Wroclaw, and a member of Polish Academy of Sciences.

Expert with international reputation, former head of Department of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua Uni

Expert with international reputation, former head of Department of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University, has been appointed Deputy Dean of School of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University since 2005. One faculty of Tsinghua said the appointment of Xin is expected to enhance the School's already strong reputation and national ranking. The school's undergraduate education and graduate program both rank 1st in P.R. China.

Was a Dutch professor of political ethics at Radboud University Nijmegen.[1] Kees Klop served as the

Was a Dutch professor of political ethics at Radboud University Nijmegen.[1] Kees Klop served as the chairman of the NCRV from 2001 to 2005.[1] He also worked as a columnist for the Trouw.

Is a South African poet, known for his anti-apartheid poetry.He studied at the University of Cape To

Is a South African poet, known for his anti-apartheid poetry.He studied at the University of Cape Town 1964-70, where he was a tutor and junior lecturer to 1983. [1] Keith Gottschalk works in the Political Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape.Keith Gottschalk's poetry is 'political', and its appearance at cultural festival and mass rallies of the mass democratic movement attests to its massive success as political poetry. [2] He is a performing poet, whose work needs to be heard as well as read.He has given over one hundred performances of his poems, and also had over one hundred poems published in magazines such as New Coin, New Contrast, Phoebe, Staffrider and Agenda. [1] His first collection was "Emergency Poems" [3] In his introduction to "Emergency Poems" Peter Horn described Gottschalk's contribution as follows: "wit and conceit also seem to me to describe most adequately the poetic and aesthetic vehicles which Gottschalk chooses to address the political in poetry. Often, when critics address poetry like Gottschalk's they use the term satire, this most misplaced and displaced genre in English poetry. What is central to satire and to wit is not

Is a British aspirant UIAGM mountain guide and experienced alpinist. He was nominated alongside clim

Is a British aspirant UIAGM mountain guide and experienced alpinist. He was nominated alongside climbing partners for the Piolet d'Or award in 2003 for a route on Annapurna III. He also led polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes on a successful attempt of the

Was born in Aswan City in Upper Egypt.Mr. Khalil Abdul-Karim joined the Muslim Brotherhood in his yo

Was born in Aswan City in Upper Egypt.Mr. Khalil Abdul-Karim joined the Muslim Brotherhood in his youth. After attaining his high school diploma he traveled to Cairo to study Law and he graduated from Cairo University (then, Fouad the First University). He then joined the Lawyers Syndicates. He spent two year as a trainee lawyer at the office of prominent Muslim Brotherhood lawyers. These were Mr. Abdul-Qader ‘Udda (the under-secretary of the society) and Ibrahim al-Taib (the head of the special apparatus of the society)

Was a Dutch theologian, churchman and journalist. He studied at the Free University, Amsterdam and o

Was a Dutch theologian, churchman and journalist. He studied at the Free University, Amsterdam and obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the concept of theological time in Karl Barth in 1955. In 1956 he was appointed Professor of Systematic theology at the Reformed Theological College in Geelong, Australia, where he taught until his return to the Netherlands in 1971.

Is a German sociologist and writer. He wrote his dissertation Freikorpsliteratur und der Körper des

Is a German sociologist and writer. He wrote his dissertation Freikorpsliteratur und der Körper des soldatischen Mannes about Freikorps narratives, a sub-literature produced by pre-fascist paramilitaries organized in Freikorps, who, during the early Weimar republic, had fought external or internal enemies. In academia only few historians had read and analysed this literature before Theweleit. His book Männerphantasien (1977); translated as Male Fantasies (1987), a study of the fascist consciousness in general and the bodily experience of these former soldiers in particular, easily detected in their hatefilled, near-illiterate books, was well received

Is a German academic and diplomat. He has studied Philosophy, History and Classical Philology in Mun

Is a German academic and diplomat. He has studied Philosophy, History and Classical Philology in Munich and International Economics and International Law at Fletcher School (Tufts-Harvard, MA, 1967). In 1965 Dr. Seitz entered the German Foreign Service, and in 1975 he became a speechwriter for then-foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, a position he retained until 1987. Subsequently he served as German ambassador to India, Italy and China.

Was a German Roman Catholic theologian and humanist of the early Reformation period. He was a quiet

Was a German Roman Catholic theologian and humanist of the early Reformation period. He was a quiet and stubborn conservative, considered quiet but somewhat narrow. In theology he was a pupil of Martin Polich of Mellerstadt and a Thomist. His family, whose name was Koch, came from Wimpfen on the Neckar, hence he was called Wimpina. He matriculated at the University of Leipzig (1479–1480) and remained there until 1505; in 1481 he obtained the baccalaureate degree, and in 1485 was made magister.

A leading feminist figure and academic in Sri Lanka. Her work is part of the canon of third-world fe

A leading feminist figure and academic in Sri Lanka. Her work is part of the canon of third-world feminism which conceptualizes feminism(s) that are indigenous and unique to non-Western societies and nations rather than mere off-shoots of Western feminism(s).Jayawardena is the author of several books, including Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World, for which she was selected for the Feminist Fortnight award in Britain in 1986 and was cited by Ms. Magazine in 1992 as writing one of the "20 most important books of the feminist decades" (1970-1990). This text is widely used in Women's Studies programs around the world.

Was a member of the White Rose group, which carried out resistance against Nazi Germany. Huber's pol

Was a member of the White Rose group, which carried out resistance against Nazi Germany. Huber's political activities came to the attention of the Gestapo and he was arrested on February 27, 1943. By happenstance composer Carl Orff called at Huber’s house the day after he was taken. Huber’s wife begged him to use his influence to help her husband. But Orff told her that if his friendship with Huber was ever discovered he would be “ruined”. Orff left, Huber’s wife never saw him again. Later, wracked by guilt, Orff would write a letter to his late friend Huber imploring him for forgiveness. [1][2]