Academic/intellectual Famous Names Starting with Letter U

Was a Dutch astronomer and educator who founded the astronomy program at the University of Maryland

Was a Dutch astronomer and educator who founded the astronomy program at the University of Maryland and was instrumental in bringing Gart Westerhout from Holland to become Department Head.

Is a German conductor. He studied at the Bremen Conservatory, and also at the Hochschule für Musik

Is a German conductor. He studied at the Bremen Conservatory, and also at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with György Ligeti, Christoph von Dohnányi and Horst Stein. From 1988 to 1991, Schirmer was Generalmusikdirector (GMD) of the city of Wiesbaden. He has also served as artistic director of symphonic concerts at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. He was Principal Conductor of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1995-1998. He became a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in 2000.

Originally a merchant, later a teacher and professor of Dutch language and literature at the Museum

Originally a merchant, later a teacher and professor of Dutch language and literature at the Museum for Science and Arts in Brussels and later at the Royal Naval Institute in Medemblik. Lauts was an early protagonist of the cause of the South African Voortrekkers and Dutch migration to the new Boer republics.[1]

Is a German literary scholar and writer. Since 1976 Ulrich Horstmann has published, alongside scient

Is a German literary scholar and writer. Since 1976 Ulrich Horstmann has published, alongside scientific work, essays, novels and plays of his own, as well as translations from English. In 1983 he became known for his treatise The Beast, in which he promoted a philosophical position which was diametrically opposed to the peace movement Zeitgeist of those years: He advocated a philosophy of "escape of mankind" which aims for an early self-destruction of the human race by means of the accumulated nuclear weapons found in arsenals around the world. He pushed the pessimism and misanthropy of his mentor Schopenhauer to the extreme. Horst's work was not, as some had suspected, a particularly bitter satire, as was shown by the author's subsequent publications which were written with an attitude of nihilism and extreme distaste for the world.

Was a Swiss mountain guide famous for his longevity and love for mountain climbing. He had been on t

Was a Swiss mountain guide famous for his longevity and love for mountain climbing. He had been on the top of Matterhorn over 370 times and made his last ascent of it when he was 90.

Is a German philosophy teacher and writer.[1] She has been philosophy teacher at the Free University

Is a German philosophy teacher and writer.[1] She has been philosophy teacher at the Free University of Berlin, at the University of Frankfurt, and, now, at the University of Mannheim, where she is professor in that speciality.[2]