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Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)
playwright, poet, linguist
- Mozarteum University Salzburg
Erico Verissimo (1905-1975)
linguist, translator, journalist
Johann Mattheson (1681-1764)
composer, lexicographer, linguist, organist, diplomat, musicologist, music theorist, opera singer
Pietro Bembo (1470-1547)
poet, librarian, historian, translator, essayist, Catholic priest, humanist, philologist, scholar, Catholic bishop
- University of Padua
Émile Littré (1801-1881)
politician, lexicographer, linguist, medical historian, philosopher, translator
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Faculté de médecine de Paris
Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963)
linguist, autobiographer, biographer, freedom fighter
Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
theologian, philosopher, composer, linguist, poet, autobiographer, logician, religious figure
- École cathédrale de Paris
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765)
astronomer, geologist, physicist, chemist, linguist, poet, historian, philosopher, inventor, mosaicist, geographer, mathematician, politician, painter, scientist, translator
- Slavic Greek Latin Academy, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy