Famous People with Name Knut

Knut Reinhardt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Knut Reinhardt: a German former footballer who played as a Midfielder. Reinhardt had successful spells with Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund, before ending his career at 1. FC Nuremberg. He won seven caps for Germany between 1988 and 1992. After his football career he started a second career as elementary school teacher.

Knut Kroon            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Knut Kroon: was a Swedish footballer. He played as a striker.He began his career in Stattena IF. In 1925 he moved to the nearby club Helsingborgs IF where he made 516 appearances and scored 318 goals. he won Allsvenskan 5 times with the club he quit playing in 1942.

Knut Emil Lundmark            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Knut Emil Lundmark: was a Swedish astronomer, professor of astronomy and head of the observatory at Lund University 1929-1955.Lundmark received his astronomical education at the observatory of Uppsala University. His dissertation (1920) was titled: The relations of the globular clusters and spiral nebulae to the stellar system. In the 1920s he worked at several observatories in the US, mainly Lick Observatory and Mount Wilson Observatory.Knut Lundmark was one of the pioneers in the modern study of the galaxies and their distances. He was one of the first to suspect that the galaxies are remote stellar systems at vast distances and not nearby objects belonging to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. In 1919 he measured the distance to M31 - the Andromeda Galaxy, to 650 000 light years (about a fourth of the present day value) using magnitudes of novae found in M31 and comparing them to nearby ones with known distances

Knut Ekwall            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Knut Ekwall: was a Swedish painter, 3 April 1843 in Säby (province Småland), Sweden – 4 April 1912 in Säby. Ekwall studied from 1860-1866 at the Academy of Arts in Stockholm, with emphasis on xylography (designing woodcut printing blocks) and drawing. He became a pupil in Berlin of the painter Ludwig Knaus. In 1870, Ekwall established himself as an artist in Munich in Germany and later worked in Leipzig. His works during this period were primarily for magazine illustrations, and were reproduced as engravings. He returned to Sweden and died there at the age of 69.

Knut Fredrik Idestam            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Knut Fredrik Idestam: was a Finnish mining engineer and businessman, best known as a founder of Nokia.In May 1865, Idestam obtained a permit to construct a groundwood paper mill at Tampere, Finland. The mill began operations in 1866. In 1871, Idestam and Leo Mechelin founded Nokia Ltd. and moved the company's operations to the city of Nokia, Finland.