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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
John Grisham (born 1955)
lawyer, politician, film producer, actor, television producer, missionary, jurist
- Mississippi State University, University of Mississippi
Montesquieu (1689-1755)
philosopher, sociologist, lawyer, judge, encyclopédistes, historian, politician, jurist
- College of Juilly, Lycée Saint-Louis
David Drake (1945-2023)
lawyer, editor, jurist
- Duke University, University of Iowa
Cass Sunstein (born 1954)
jurist, political scientist, economist, lawyer, philosopher
- Harvard Law School, Harvard College
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
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian
- University of Marburg
Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)
lexicographer, anthropologist, librarian, law librarian, pedagogue, linguist, literary scholar, Germanist, jurist, mythographer, collector of fairy tales, philologist
- University of Marburg, Humboldt University of Berlin