Famous People with Name Ewald

Reinhold Ewald            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Reinhold Ewald: is a German physicist and ESA astronaut.In 1990, he was selected to the German astronaut team, training for the Mir '92 mission. He was the backup of Klaus-Dietrich Flade for the Soyuz TM-14 mission. In 1995 he began training for the second German Mir mis

Jesper Ewald            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jesper Ewald: was a Danish author, journalist and translator. He was son of Carl Ewald and halfbrother to Poul Henningsen.[1]Beside the books he has written, Jesper Ewald also wrote lots of childrensbooks under different pseudonyms. He also did translations by authors:

Carl Anton Ewald            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Carl Anton Ewald: was a German gastroenterologist who was a native of Berlin. In 1870 he earned his medical doctorate in Berlin, and subsequently became an assistant to pathologist Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819-1885). In 1888 he became head physician of the department of internal medicine at Augusta Hospital in Berlin.

Manfred Ewald            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Manfred Ewald: served as German Democratic Republic's (GDR) minister of sport (1961–1988) and president of his country's Olympic committee[2] (1973–1990). However, he is best known for his role as the architect[citation needed] of his East Germany's state-sponsored system of using illicit performance-enhancing drugs to turn his country into an Olympic powerhouse between 1972 and 1988.

Johannes Ewald            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Johannes Ewald: was a Danish national dramatist and poet. Ewald, normally regarded as the most important Danish poet of the 2nd half of the 18th century, led a short and troubled life, marked by alcoholism and poor health. The son of a Copenhagen pietist vicar, Enevold Ewald, the grandson of pietist Marie Wulf, and fatherless from an early age, he was educated as a theologian, but his real interest was in literature. An unhappy love for a girl, Arendse, inspired his later poetry deeply (his description of this love is the first "modern" Danish poetic treatment of the subject). After a time as a soldier and war hero in the Prussian Seven Years' War he was 1760 brought back seriously weakened. The following years were spent living as a bohemian and writing poetry in Copenhagen; they were also a time of alcoholism and conflicts with his mother and stepfather (for most of his life he was under their tutelage and he never took up a profession). His lifestyle had much in common with his contemporary Johan Herman Wessel, but, as writers they differed greatly. As an author Ewald is a prominent representative of Danish sentimentalism but at the same time a forerunner of romanticism. His main inspiration was German poetry (Klopstock), but British writers like Edward Young and Sterne, as well as Rousseau, are obvious inspirations as well. Violent expressions of feeling (happiness, sorrow and love) are typical in his writing; these elements are apparently spontaneous but, at the same time, deliberately and artificially drawn up. Behind this a clear pietist tune is felt.