Laspeyres was the scion of a Huguenot family of originally Gascon descent which had settled in Berlin in the 17th century, and he emphasised the Occitan pronunciation of his name as a link to his Gascon origins.
Saint-Étienne | Étienne-Jules Marey | George-Étienne Cartier | Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol | Saint-Étienne-le-Laus | Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray | Etienne Decroux | Étienne Serres | Étienne Maurice Falconet | Étienne Gilson | Étienne François, duc de Choiseul | Saint-Étienne-du-Mont | Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès | Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry | Saint-Etienne | Jean-Étienne Guettard | Jean Étienne Championnet | Giovanni Baleison, ''Cycle on the life of Saint Sebastian'', fresco, detail of main altar, St. Sebastian Church, Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée | François Étienne de Kellermann | Étienne Mulsant | Étienne Marcel | Étienne-Louis Malus | Étienne Louis Geoffroy | Étienne-Louis Boullée | Étienne Lenoir | Etienne Laspeyres | Étienne-Jean Delécluze | Étienne Guibourg | Étienne Dupérac |
Next to Liebig, famous professors at the university included the theologian Adolf von Harnack, the lawyer Rudolf von Jhering, the economist and statistician Etienne Laspeyres, the physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the mathematicians Moritz Pasch and Alfred Clebsch, the gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka, the philologist and archaeologist Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, and the orientalist Eberhard Schrader.