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German-born novelist (1898–1970)

Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist.

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Swedish poet (1864–1931)

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously after he had been nominated by Nathan Söderblom, member of the Swedish Academy.

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American author and journalist (1899–1961)

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist.

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French philosopher and writer (1823–1892)

Ernest Renan

Joseph Ernest Renan was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic.

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Argentine writer, painter and physicist (1911-2011)

Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist.

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German zoologist (1834-1919)

Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist.

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German writer (1895–1998)

Ernst Jünger

Ernst Jünger was a German author, soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel.

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German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker (1880–1938)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker.

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Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)

Euclid

Euclid was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician.

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