Famous People with Name Eberhard

Eberhard Werdin            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Eberhard Werdin: was a German composer and writer on music. He studied in Hanover, Bielefeld and Cologne, and then became a schoolteacher. From 1955 to 1969 he was a lecturer at the conservatory in Düsseldorf, and in 1952 he became a professor at the Municipal Music School in Leverkusen.

Eberhard Fischer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Eberhard Fischer: is a West German sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1970s.

Eberhard Gottlieb Graff            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Eberhard Gottlieb Graff: 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).

Eberhard R. Wenzel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Eberhard R. Wenzel: 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.

Eberhard Havekost            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Eberhard Havekost: is a contemporary German painter based in Berlin and Dresden. In 1985 he completed an internship as a stonemason. He studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden from 1991-1996, where he became a master student under Professor Ralf Kerbach in 1997. In 1999 he was awarded the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff grant. Works by Havekost are found in the stock of the Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum als well as in the Marx Collection, the Rubell Family Collection, der Frieder Burda Collection, and the Tate Collection. He is represented by Anton Kern[1] in New York and Galerie Gebr. Lehmann[2] in Dresden and Berlin.

Wolfram Eberhard            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wolfram Eberhard: was a professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley focused on Western, Central and Eastern Asian societies. Born in Potsdam, German Empire, he had a strong family background of astrophysicists and astronomers. He taught a wide variety of courses specializing in the societies and popular cultures of Western, Central and Eastern Asia. He was especially interested in Chinese folklore, popular literature, Turkish history, minorities and local cultures in China and the relations between the Chinese and the peoples of Central Asia. Eberhard entered Berlin University in 1927 where he focused his attention to classical Chinese and Social Anthropology. Because Berlin University, where Eberhard studied, did not offer instructions on colloquial Chinese, Eberhard enrolled secretly and simultaneously at the Seminar for Oriental Languages.

Fritz Eberhard            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Fritz Eberhard: was a German journalist, anti-fascist and social democrat and fought in the German Resistance against Nazism. He was a member of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). After the war, Eberhard was a member of the Parliamentary Council, precur

Gustav E. Eberhard            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Gustav E. Eberhard: German astrophysicist. Eberhard published numerous investigations on spectroscopy and on photographic photogrametry.[2] The photographic Eberhard effect (belonging to the edge effects family) is named after him and was published in 1926.[3]

Rudolf Eberhard            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Rudolf Eberhard: was a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. He was a member of the Landtag of Bavaria between 1950 and 1974.