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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
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
marine biologist, environmentalist, zoologist, essayist, conservationist, whistleblower
- Chatham University, Johns Hopkins University
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)
politician, philosopher, revolutionary, economist, journalist, editor, political theorist, botanical collector, economist, opinion journalist, editing staff, docent
- University of Zurich
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
mathematician, jurist, physicist, philosopher, diplomat, historian, librarian, musicologist, translator, music theorist, diplomatician, poet, engineer, zoologist, archivist, biologist, geologist, policy advisor, philosopher of law, logician
- University of Altdorf, Leipzig University
Hildegard of Bingen (1097-1179)
naturalist, composer, philosopher, illuminator, physician, nun, poet, theologian, abbess, artist, playwright, botanist, mystic, sexologist, polymath
- Disibodenberg
Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777)
anatomist, librarian, poet, politician, physician, biologist, botanist, polymath, entomologist, surgeon, naturalist
- University of Tübingen, Leiden University
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
biologist, linguist, paleontologist, translator, ichthyologist, zoologist, carcinologist, anatomist, photographer, philosopher, anthropologist, physiologist, naturalist, evolutionary biologist
- University College London, Charing Cross Hospital
Grant Allen (1848-1899)
naturalist, botanist, teacher
- University of Oxford