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Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff
Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff (1833–1910) was a Swiss physicist, professor of physics at the University of Basel from 1863 to 1906, who originated the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota used in Swiss electoral law.
Eduard Heimann
Eduard Heimann (1889–1967), German economist and religious socialist, Hamburg professor, New School exile, pioneer of the socialist market economy, and Mises's interlocutor on economic calculation.
Eduard Heinrich Henoch
Eduard Heinrich Henoch (1820–1910) was a German pediatrician who directed the Berlin Charité children's clinic for two decades and described the condition now called IgA vasculitis.
Eduard Helly
Eduard Helly was an Austrian mathematician (1884–1943) known for Helly's theorem in convex geometry, the Helly selection principle, and a 1912 forerunner of the Hahn–Banach theorem.
Eduard Hitzig
Eduard Hitzig (1838–1907) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who, with Gustav Fritsch, showed in 1870 that electrical stimulation of a dog's cortex produces movement.
Eduard Ivanov
Eduard Georgiyevich Ivanov (Эдуард Георгиевич Иванов, 1938–2012), Soviet ice hockey defenseman with CSKA Moskva; 1964 Olympic champion, four-time world and European champion, and the defenseman named best forward at Innsbruck 1964.
Eduard Khil (Эдуард Анатольевич Хиль)
Eduard Khil (Эдуард Анатольевич Хиль, 1934–2012), Soviet and Russian baritone estrada singer, People's Artist of the RSFSR, famous for "Зима" and the 1976 vocalize that went viral in 2010 as the "Trololo" meme.
Eduard Koksharov
Eduard Koksharov (Эдуард Александрович Кокшаров), Russian handball left wing (1975–2026): Olympic gold 2000, world gold 1997, 1,110 international goals; later coached Russia and Meshkov Brest.
Eduard Loewenthal
Eduard Loewenthal (1836–1917) was a German philosophical and political writer, newspaper editor, and philologist who pioneered the German peace movement and was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Eduard Meyer
Eduard Meyer (1855–1930) was a German ancient historian and Egyptologist whose five-volume Geschichte des Altertums (1884–1902) made him, after Theodor Mommsen, the best known German ancient historian of his age.
Eduard Mörike
Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) was a German lyric poet and Lutheran pastor, born in Ludwigsburg, best known for his 1838 Gedichte and the novella Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag.
Eduard Pestel
Eduard Pestel (1914–1988) was a German engineer and physicist, professor of mechanics and rector at Hannover, co-founder of the Club of Rome, and Lower Saxony's science minister from 1977 to 1981.
Eduard Polón
Eduard Polón (1861–1930) was a Finnish industrialist and lawyer who founded the Finnish Rubber Works in 1898 and led it for thirty years as managing director.
Eduard Pütsep
Eduard Pütsep (1898–1960), Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler, first Estonian wrestling Olympic champion, gold at Paris 1924 bantamweight (≤58 kg); world and European silver medalist, later coach in Estonia, Latvia, and Finland.
Eduard Rügemer
Eduard David Rügemer (1883–1953), Wehrmacht major and head of the HKP vehicle workshop in Tarnopol, sheltered and rescued Jews during the 1943 liquidation with Irene Gut Opdyke; recognized Righteous Among the Nations in 2012.
Eduard Scherrer
Eduard Scherrer (1890–1972), Swiss bobsledder from Leysin, Vaud; won the first-ever Olympic bobsled gold in the four-man event at Chamonix 1924 with Neveu and the Schläppi brothers after winning a sled in a raffle; his only international competition.
Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Shevardnadze (1928–2014), Soviet foreign minister 1985–1990 under Gorbachev and architect of New Thinking, then president of Georgia 1995–2003; resigned in the November 2003 Rose Revolution after a rigged parliamentary election amid corruption.
Eduard Sibiryakov
Eduard Sibiryakov (Эдуард Фёдорович Сибиряков), Soviet volleyball attacker born 1941 in Chelyabinsk, won Olympic gold at Tokyo 1964 and Mexico City 1968, plus 1962 world and 1967 European titles.
Eduard Sievers
Eduard Sievers (1850–1932) was a German philologist and linguist, professor at Leipzig from 1892 to 1922, known for Sievers' law in Indo-European phonology and his five-type analysis of Germanic alliterative verse.
Eduard Strasburger
Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912) was a German plant cytologist, born in Warsaw, who held professorships at Jena and Bonn and established that the cell nucleus carries heredity.
Eduard Streltsov
Eduard Streltsov (Эдуард Стрельцов, 1937–1990), Soviet forward for Torpedo Moscow and the USSR; 1956 Olympic gold champion, twice Soviet Footballer of the Year, imprisoned 1958 after a disputed rape trial, never played a World Cup.
Eduard Study
Eduard Study (1862–1930) was a German mathematician at the University of Bonn known for the Study quadric, a six-dimensional model of rigid-body motions that underlies modern kinematics and robotics.
Eduard Suess
Eduard Suess (1831–1914) was an Austrian geologist and professor at the University of Vienna who named Gondwana and Tethys and wrote Das Antlitz der Erde.
Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe
Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, was an Austrian statesman who served twice as Minister-President of Cisleithania, the Austrian half of the Habsburg Monarchy, from 1879 to 1893.
Eduard Thelen
Eduard Thelen, born 1946 in Köln, is a German former field hockey player who won gold with West Germany at the 1972 Munich Olympics, beating Pakistan 1-0 in the final, earned 38 caps, played for Rot-Weiss Köln, and became an orthopedic surgeon.
Eduard Totleben
Eduard Ivanovich Totleben (Эдуард Иванович Тотлебен) was a Russian military engineer and general of Baltic German origin who directed the land defenses of Sevastopol during the Crimean War.
Eduard Vilde
Eduard Vilde (1865–1933) was an Estonian writer, journalist, and diplomat, a classic of Estonian literature and one of the founders of the Estonian novel, known for Külmale maale.
Eduard Vinokurov
Eduard Vinokurov (Эдуард Теодорович Винокуров, 1942–2010), Soviet sabre fencer; two Olympic team golds (1968, 1976) and 1972 silver, six world team titles, later coach and Olympic referee.
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, also known as Baron Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal who led the 2nd Army on the Eastern Front during World War I.
Eduard Weyr
Eduard Weyr (1852–1903) was a Czech mathematician who spent his career teaching in Prague and introduced the Weyr canonical form of a matrix in papers of 1885 and 1890.