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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
philosopher, historian, political scientist, essayist, sociologist, political theorist, resistance fighter
- Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Marburg
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
political philosopher, journalist, autobiographer, essayist, political activist, diarist, philosopher, literary critic, feminist
- University of Paris, Lycée Fénelon, Paris
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
theologian, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, Catholic priest, geologist, philosopher, scientific collector, stretcher bearer
- University of Paris, Villanova University
Thomas More (1478-1535)
philosopher, historian, theologian, politician, poet, statesperson, poet lawyer, judge, diplomat
- Lincoln's Inn, University of Oxford
Yosef Schwartz (born 1965)
activist, professor, religious studies scholar, medievalist, philosopher
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701)
salonnière, literary, poet, French moralist, philosopher
Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803)
journalist, poet, philosopher, librettist, lawyer, playwright, pamphleteer, librarian, opinion journalist
- University of Paris
Theodor Lessing (1872-1933)
philosopher, journalist, opinion journalist, politician
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Bonn