Joel Dorman Steele was an American educator. He and his wife Esther Baker Steele were important textbook writers of their period, on subjects including American history, chemistry, human physiology, physics, astronomy, and zoology. In the preface to his posthumous Popular Physics, the publisher writes that his books "attained an extraordinary degree of popularity, due to the author's attractive style, his great skill in the selection of material suited to the demands of the schools for which the books were intended, his sympathetic spirit toward both teachers and pupils, and his earnest Christian character, which was exhibited in all his writing."
Joel Tyler Headley was an American clergyman, historian, author, newspaper editor, adventurer and politician who served as Secretary of State of New York. Headley belonged to the American Party.
Johan Bojer was a popular Norwegian novelist and dramatist. He principally wrote about the lives of the poor farmers and fishermen, both in his native Norway and among the Norwegian immigrants in the United States.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
Johan Ludvig Runeberg oli suomalainen runoilija, opettaja, toimittaja, pappi ja professori. Runebergiä pidetään Suomen kansallisrunoilijana. Hänen ruotsiksi kirjoittamansa työt vaikuttivat merkittävästi myös Ruotsin kirjallisuuteen. J. L. Runebergin puoliso oli kirjailija Fredrika Runeberg.
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, född 5 februari 1804 i Jakobstad, död 6 maj 1877 i Borgå, var en finlandssvensk författare och poet, som betraktas som Finlands nationalskald. Ur hans mest spridda verk, Fänrik Ståls sägner, publicerat i två delar 1848 respektive 1860, har bland annat texten till Finlands nationalsång, Vårt land, hämtats.
Johann Beckmann (1739–1811) was a German scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject.
Johann Caspar Lavater, auch Johann Kaspar Lavater, war ein reformierter Schweizer Pfarrer, Philosoph und Schriftsteller in der Zeit der Aufklärung sowie ein Hauptvertreter der Physiognomik.
