All articles starting with E

Ernst Geerling

Ernst Geerling (Wilhelm Adolph Ernst Geerling), German sprinter of Eintracht Frankfurt, born 1909, died 1971; equaled the 100 m world record at 10.4 in 1928, won six German titles, and ran at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.

Ernst Gehrcke

Ernst Gehrcke (1878–1960) was a German experimental physicist and optics specialist at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin, co-inventor of the Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer plate and a leading opponent of Einstein's relativity from 1911 to 1924.

Ernst Gerlach

Ernst Gerlach (born 1947, Schönebeck) is a German handball player, 1980 Olympic champion with East Germany, 1978 World bronze medalist, and SC Magdeburg club great with five GDR titles and two European Cups.

Oct 22, 2026

Ernst Gideon von Laudon

Ernst Gideon von Laudon was an Austrian field marshal of Livonian birth who fought Frederick the Great in the Seven Years' War and captured Belgrade in 1789.

Sep 27, 2026

Ernst Gödl

Ernst Gödl (born 1971) is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party who has chaired its parliamentary group since 2026, after serving in the Federal Council.

Ernst Gombrich

Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001) was an Austrian-born British art historian and director of the Warburg Institute whose The Story of Art sold over 8 million copies.

Ernst Gräfenberg

Ernst Gräfenberg (1881–1957) was a German gynecologist whose 1928 intrauterine ring became the first scientifically grounded IUD, and whose 1950 paper on an erogenous zone in the vagina gave the G-spot its name.

Ernst Guillemin

Ernst Adolph Guillemin (1898–1970) was an American electrical engineer and educator at MIT, generally considered the founding father of circuit theory education and author of six sole-authored textbooks.

Ernst H. K. Stelzer

Ernst H. K. Stelzer is a German physicist who pioneered light sheet fluorescence microscopy and has been Professor of Physical Biology at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2011.

Ernst Hadorn

Ernst Hadorn (1902–1976) was a Swiss developmental biologist and geneticist, professor of zoology and rector at the University of Zurich, known for discovering transdetermination in Drosophila imaginal discs.

Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel, born 1834 in Potsdam, was a German zoologist at the University of Jena who championed Darwin, coined ecology, founded phylogenetics, and proposed that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

Sep 20, 2026

Ernst Hafen

Ernst Hafen (born 1956) is a Swiss developmental geneticist who showed how fruit flies control cell and organ size, and served as President of ETH Zurich from 2005.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl (1887–1975), Munich art publisher and Harvard graduate, was Hitler's early financier, piano-playing confidant, and NSDAP foreign press chief, fled in 1937, and then served Roosevelt's S-Project as intelligence analyst and psychological warfare adviser.

Ernst Hellinger

Ernst Hellinger (1883–1950) was a German mathematician known for the Hellinger distance and, with David Hilbert, the theory of quadratic forms in infinitely many variables.

Ernst Hinterseer

Ernst Hinterseer (born 1932, Kitzbühel) is an Austrian alpine skier who won slalom gold and giant slalom bronze at the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics, later the 1963 World Professional title and Austrian national coach.

Oct 20, 2026

Ernst Hoppenberg

Ernst Hoppenberg (1878–1937), German swimmer, Bremer SV 1885; first Olympic backstroke champion, winning 200 m backstroke (2:47.0) and team gold at Paris 1900; record stood until 1964; ISHOF honoree 1988.

Ernst Ihbe

Ernst Ihbe, full name Hermann Ernst Ihbe, was a German track cyclist who won the 2,000-meter tandem sprint at the 1936 Berlin Olympics with Carl Lorenz.

Ernst J. Kuipers

Ernst J. Kuipers is a Dutch gastroenterologist who served as Netherlands Minister of Health from 2022 to 2024 and led Erasmus MC in Rotterdam as CEO.

Ernst J. Schaefer

Ernst J. Schaefer (E. J. Schaefer) is an American physician and lipid metabolism researcher at Tufts University, known for defining HDL metabolism and the defect in Tangier disease.

Ernst Jacobsthal

Ernst Erich Jacobsthal (1882–1965) was a German number theorist who studied under Frobenius and Schur in Berlin, gave his name to the Jacobsthal numbers and Jacobsthal's function, and spent his later career in Norway.

Oct 22, 2026

Ernst Jandl

Ernst Jandl (1925–2000) was an Austrian poet and a central figure of German-language experimental poetry, best known for the sound poem "schtzngrmm" and the comic "ottos mops".

Ernst Joachim Kuppers

Ernst-Joachim Küppers (1942–2025), German backstroke swimmer, 1964 Tokyo Olympic silver medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay; unbeaten in West Germany 1959–1967, set a 100 m backstroke world record of 1:00.8.

Sep 24, 2026

Ernst Johann Biron

Ernst Johann Biron (Эрнст Иоганн Бирон) was a Courland nobleman who became Empress Anna Ivanovna's favorite, Duke of Courland from 1737, and regent of Russia in 1740.

Ernst Julius Meier

Ernst Julius Meier was a German evangelical-Lutheran theologian, born in Zwickau in 1828, who served as pastor of the Dresden Frauenkirche and from 1890 as Saxony's chief court preacher.

Ernst Jünger

Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), German writer, soldier, and entomologist, author of Storm of Steel (1920), Der Arbeiter (1932), and On the Marble Cliffs (1939); Pour le Mérite recipient, Weimar radical, Third Reich outsider, Paris officer, and controversial postwar Goethe Prize laureate.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946), Austrian lawyer and SS-Obergruppenführer, headed the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) from January 1943, controlling the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD; convicted at Nuremberg of war crimes and crimes against humanity and hanged 16 October 1946.

Ernst Klenk

Ernst Klenk (1896–1971) was a German biochemist who discovered the gangliosides of nerve cells and isolated neuraminic acid, and defined the lipid storage diseases Niemann-Pick and Gaucher.

Ernst Knobil

Ernst Knobil (1926–2000) was an American physiologist and endocrinologist, a National Academy of Sciences member known for discovering growth hormone's species specificity and that the hypothalamus drives reproduction through pulsatile GnRH secretion.

Ernst Konstantin Ranke

Ernst Konstantin Ranke (1814–1888) was a German Lutheran pastor, church historian, and Latin poet who held the chair of church history at Marburg from 1850.