Ewald
Ewald is a given name and surname used primarily in Germany and Scandinavia. It derives from the Germanic roots ewa meaning "law" and wald meaning "power, brightness". People and concepts with the name include:
Look up Ewald in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Surnames
- Douglas Ewald (1937-2021), American politician and consultant
- Carl Anton Ewald (1845–1915), pioneering German gastroenterologist
- Johann Ewald (1744–1813), Danish general and veteran of the American Revolutionary War
- Johannes Ewald (1743–1781), Danish dramatist and poet
- Heinrich Ewald (1803–1875), German orientalist and theologian
- Paul Peter Ewald (1888–1985), German physicist, pioneer of X-ray diffraction and crystallography
- Paul W. Ewald (born 1953), evolutionary biologist specializing in the evolution of infectious disease
- Reinhold Ewald (born 1956), German astronaut
- Victor Ewald (1860–1935), Russian composer
Given names
- Either of the Two Ewalds, saints in Old Saxony about 692
- Ewald Max Hoyer (1863–1957), founding mayor of Bossier City, Louisiana
- Ewald Krolis (1947-2006), Surinamese kaseko singer
- Ewald Stadler (born 1961), Austrian politician
- Ewald von Kleist (1881-1954), German field marshal during World War II
- Ewald von Lochow (1885-1942), Prussian officer and later General of Infantry during World War I, recipient of Pour le Mérite with Oakleaves
- Ewald von Demandowsky (1906-1946), German film producer who held the office of a Nazi German Reichsfilmdramaturg and was head of production at the Tobis Film company in the Third Reich
Concepts
- Ewald's sphere (named after Paul Peter Ewald), a geometric construct used in crystallography
- Ewald summation (named after Paul Peter Ewald), a method for computing the interaction energies of periodic systems
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Ewald
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.