Eitel

Eitel may refer to

  • Ernst Johann Eitel, a German Protestant missionary to China and the author of a Cantonese dictionary.
  • A romanisation scheme of the Cantonese language named after Ernst Johann Eitel.

Famous quotes containing the word eitel:

    “The manuscript lay like a dust-rag on his desk, and Eitel found, as he had found before, that the difficulty of art was that it forced a man back on his life, and each time the task was more difficult and distasteful.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)