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Friedrich Hƶlderlin (1770-1843)
poet, librarian, translator, philosopher, librettist, Hofmeister
- University of TĆ¼bingen, University of Jena
Georges Bataille (1897-1962)
librarian, drawer, philosopher
- Ćcole des chartes
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
actor, chess player, painter, sculptor, photographer, poet, librarian, designer, artist, visual artist, film director, philosopher, architectural draftsperson, printmaker, assemblage artist
- AcadƩmie Julian, LycƩe Pierre-Corneille
Andrew Dalby (born 1947)
linguist, librarian, cultural historian, historian, classical scholar, translator
- University of Cambridge, Bristol Grammar School
Georg Forster (1754-1794)
explorer, anthropologist, ethnologist, pteridologist, librarian, translator, ornithologist, revolutionary, biologist, botanist, journalist, entomologist, mycologist, autobiographer, naturalist, art historian, geographer, traveler, scientific explorer
- Saint Peter's School
Robert Musil (1880-1942)
librarian, playwright, essayist, engineer
- Humboldt University of Berlin
Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750)
historian, Catholic priest, librarian, archivist, philosopher, numismatist
- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
John Shaw Billings (1838-1913)
librarian, surgeon, statistician, botanist
- Miami University, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine