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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
Jack London (1876-1916)
journalist, war correspondent, essayist, autobiographer, poet, diarist, seaman
- University of California, Berkeley
Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938)
playwright, poet, essayist, autobiographer, professor, diarist
- University of Detroit Mercy, Rice University
Simone Weil (1909-1943)
philosopher, high school teacher, autobiographer, poet, trade unionist, French resistance fighter, diarist, translator
- Lycée Henri-IV, École Normale Supérieure
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
composer, librettist, conductor, choreographer, music educator, pianist, autobiographer, music critic, diarist, translator
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Imperial School of Jurisprudence
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
playwright, philosopher, pedagogue, essayist, diarist, opinion journalist, Esperantist
- Kazan Imperial University
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
composer, judge, caricaturist, painter, conductor, music critic, drawer, diarist, critic, director
- University of Königsberg
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
diarist, poet
- Wellington Girls' College, Queen's College London