Famous People with Name Eberhard

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.