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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
Paul Valéry (1871-1945)
philosopher, poet, journalist, essayist, literary critic
- Lycée Condorcet
Kate Wilhelm (1928-2018)
literary critic, editing staff
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
poet, literary critic, essayist, philosopher, academic
- University of London, University of Ibadan
Anatole France (1844-1924)
poet, librarian, literary critic, biographer, critic
- Collège Stanislas de Paris
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)
pharmacist, poet, historian, translator, journalist, critic, theatre critic, war correspondent, librettist
- Altes Gymnasium Neuruppin
Leslie Fiedler (1917-2003)
literary critic, journalist
- University of Wisconsin–Madison, New York University
John Gardner (1933-1982)
translator, essayist, literary critic, journalist, biographer
- University of Detroit Mercy, Washington University in St. Louis