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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
translator, librarian, literary critic, poet, opinion journalist, essayist
- Collège Calvin
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
Cynthia Rylant (born 1954)
librarian
- Marshall University, U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School
Dee Brown (1908-2002)
librarian, historian, autobiographer
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, George Washington University
David Hume (1711-1776)
philosopher, economist, librarian, historian, essayist
- University of Edinburgh
Anatole France (1844-1924)
poet, librarian, literary critic, biographer, critic
- Collège Stanislas de Paris
Joanna Cole (1944-2020)
librarian
- City College of New York
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