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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)
translator, journalist, playwright, poet, literary critic, historian, biographer, essayist
- University of Vienna
Debby Applegate (born 1968)
historian, biographer
- Yale University, Amherst College
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
historian, playwright, poet, public figure, opinion journalist, school teacher, military personnel, militant, full member of RAS, teacher
- Rostov State University
Julius Caesar
orator, memoirist, ruler, Ancient Roman historian, poet, Ancient Roman priest, Ancient Roman politician, ancient Roman military personnel, politician, military leader, historian
Stendhal (1783-1842)
autobiographer, diarist, biographer, diplomat, art historian
Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803)
playwright, poet, actor, translator, stage actor, philosopher, art historian, aristocrat
Yossi Melman (born 1950)
journalist, historian, opinion journalist
- Harvard University