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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
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
linguist, poet, translator, playwright, librettist
- University of Oxford, Eton College
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
poet, playwright, journalist, opinion journalist, essayist, fabulist, librettist
- University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin
Walter Jens (1923-2013)
rhetorician, translator, literary historian, literary critic, playwright, philologist, critic, Germanist, literary scholar, librettist
- University of Tübingen, University of Freiburg
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
poet, autobiographer, playwright, journalist, traveler, cut-paper artist, director, Fairy tale teller, librettist
- Slagelse Gymnasium, University of Copenhagen
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)
pharmacist, poet, historian, translator, journalist, critic, theatre critic, war correspondent, librettist
- Altes Gymnasium Neuruppin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
composer, librettist, conductor, choreographer, music educator, pianist, autobiographer, music critic, diarist, translator
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Imperial School of Jurisprudence
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford