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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
philosopher, poet, composer, pedagogue, classical philologist, music critic, classical scholar, playwright
- University of Bonn, Leipzig University
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
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
composer, conductor, librettist, musician
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
- Lycée Condorcet
Hildegard of Bingen (1097-1179)
naturalist, composer, philosopher, illuminator, physician, nun, poet, theologian, abbess, artist, playwright, botanist, mystic, sexologist, polymath
- Disibodenberg
Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680)
linguist, mathematician, egyptologist, musicologist, music theorist, polymath, inventor, Catholic priest, astronomer, biologist, archaeologist, physicist, geologist, volcanologist, museologist, composer, historian, naturalist, orientalist, Catholic theologian, philosopher
- Pontifical Gregorian University, Gymnasium Theodorianum
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787)
composer, Catholic priest, poet, lawyer, Catholic bishop
- University of Naples Federico II
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon (1221-1284)
astronomer, ruler, composer, poet, historian, jurist