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Eduard Bratke

Eduard Bratke (1861–1906) was a German Protestant church historian who taught at Breslau and Bonn, edited early Christian texts, and wrote a guide to church-history sources.

Sep 21, 2026

Eduard Buchner

Eduard Buchner (1860–1917) was a German chemist who showed in 1897 that cell-free yeast extract ferments sugar to alcohol, disproving vitalism and winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Sep 21, 2026

Eduard C. Hurt

Eduard C. Hurt, born 1955, is a German molecular biologist and professor at Heidelberg University's Biochemistry Center, known for his 1990s Cell papers on fibrillarin, nucleoporins, and mRNA export.

Eduard Casas Alvero

Eduard Casas Alvero is a mathematician and professor at the Universitat de Barcelona who works in algebraic geometry and is known for the Casas-Alvero conjecture, an open problem about polynomials.

Eduard Čech (1893–1960) was a Czech mathematician at Brno and Prague known for Čech cohomology, the Čech–Stone compactification, and his 1936 topology seminar, which continued secretly during the Nazi closure of Czech universities.

Sep 19, 2026

Eduard Fränckel

Eduard Fränckel (1836–1912) was a Swedish railway engineer who founded AB Atlas in Stockholm in 1873 and led it until 1887; the company later became Atlas Copco.

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger

Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger (1829–1910) was a German physiologist who held the chair of physiology at Bonn from 1859 and founded the journal Pflügers Archiv in 1868.

Eduard Glanzmann

Eduard Glanzmann (1887–1959) was a Swiss pediatrician at the University of Bern who in 1918 described hereditary hemorrhagic thrombasthenia, the platelet disorder now known as Glanzmann thrombasthenia.

Eduard Grüneisen

Eduard Grüneisen (1877–1949) was a German physicist known for the Grüneisen parameter and the Mie–Grüneisen equation of state for solids, still used in shock physics and planetary science.

Eduard Guillaume Eugène Reuss

Eduard Guillaume Eugène Reuss (1804–1891) was a Lutheran biblical scholar and professor of theology at Strasbourg who applied the historico-critical method to the Old and New Testaments.

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.

Oct 22, 2026

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.

Sep 21, 2026

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.

Sep 19, 2026

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.