Ernst (German and Dutch form of Ernest) may refer to:

People[link]

"Ernst" as a surname[link]

• Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst"
• Edzard Ernst, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine
• Fabian Ernst, German soccer player
• Emil Ernst, astronomer
• Gustav Ernst, Austrian writer
• Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer
• Jim Ernst, Canadian politician
• Jimmy Ernst, American painter, son of Max Ernst
• Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933)
• Klaus Ernst, German politician
• Max Ernst, German artist
• Morris Ernst, American attorney
• Paul Ernst, pulp novelist
• Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist
• Tony Ernst, Swedish journalist
• W. Gary Ernst, American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry
• Susan Ernst, American developmental biologist

"Ernst" as a given name[link]

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• Ernst August (disambiguation page)
• Ernst Stavro Blofeld, evil genius from the James Bond films
• Ernst Boris Chain, German-born British biochemist
• Ernst Cassirer, German Jewish philosopher.
• Ernst Haeckel, German biologist and illustrator
• Ernst Happel, Austrian football (soccer) manager
• Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat
• Ernst Jünger, German writer
• Ernst Laraque, Haitian judoka
• Ernst Larsen, Norwegian athlete
• Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), German-born Jewish film director
• Ernst Mach, physicist, coined the term "mach number"
• Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologist, influential in the philosophy of biology
• Ernst Neizvestny, Russian sculptor
• Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer
• Ernst Röhm, German military officer and co-founder of the SA
• Ernst Ruska, a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986
• Ernst Stromer, German palaeontologist
• Ernst Udet, German flying ace
• Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, Austrian writer and traveller
• Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat
• Ernst Zermelo, set theorist

• Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, regent of Lippe

Other uses[link]

• Herzog Ernst, German mediaeval epic
• Ernst & Young, professional services and accounting firm
• Ernst Home Centers, A defunct hardware chain
• Ernst, Germany, a municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany

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Bret Ernst is an American stand-up comedian.^[1] He was one of four comedians featured in Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland, along with Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, and Sebastian Maniscalco.^[2] Ernst has also appeared on the television programs Comedy Central Presents and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,.^[1] He appeared in the 2006 MTV wrestling show Wrestling Society X as a commentator. Bret was the host of the first season of Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too. He also appeared in Ke$ha's Blah Blah Blah music video. His Comedy Central 1/2 hour special was voted "TOP 5" of all of 2010, and his first comedy album "American Comic" was an instant success, breaking "TOP 10" on I-Tunes in it's first week. Ernst is best known for his "Roller Skating Bit" and is considered one of the best Comedians working in the business today. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

Background[link]

Ernst was born in New Jersey of German and Italian descent.^[3] He has 2 brothers. His oldest brother, Scott Ernst, was an established theatre actor who died at the age of 33. His youngest brother, Keith Ernst, is a stand up comedian as well. He went to Middle School at Lincoln #4 School in Passaic, New Jersey, and is a graduate of Plantation High in Plantation, South Florida. Ernst also played college football and is a graduate of Long Island University.

References[link]

Ernst Reijseger, Moers Festival 2007

Ernst Reijseger (born November 13, 1954, Bussum) is a Dutch cellist and composer. He specializes in jazz, improvised music, and contemporary classical music and often gives solo concerts. He has worked with Louis Sclavis, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg, Gerry Hemingway, Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Mangelsdorff, Franco D'Andrea, Joëlle Léandre, Georg Gräwe, Trilok Gurtu, and Mola Sylla, and has done several world music projects working with musicians from Sardinia, Turkey, Iran, Senegal, and Argentina, as well as the Netherlands based group Boi Akih.

He has made numerous recordings, both as solo cellist and with other groups, and has been the subject of a documentary film. He has also written several film scores, including scores for a number of Werner Herzog films.

Films scores[link]

• 2011 - Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• 2010 - It's Already Summer
• 2009 - My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
• 2008 - The Unforbidden City
• 2005 - The Wild Blue Yonder
• 2004 - The White Diamond
• 2000 - Ajax: Hark the Herald Angel Sings

Both scores of The White Diamond and The Wild Blue Yonder were recorded in the same sessions with Reijseger, Mola Sylla, and the Voches De Sardinia.