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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
poet, literary, painter, philosopher, resistance fighter, illustrator, Nobel Prize winner, bookseller, pacifist, librettist
- Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
politician, historian, philosopher, political theorist, military theorist, translator, poet, diplomat, playwright
- University of Florence
Christine de Pizan (1364-1430)
poet, translator, philosopher
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
geologist, explorer, ethologist, naturalist, philosopher, botanist
- University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh Medical School
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
librarian, poet, women's rights activist, essayist, teacher, feminist, philosopher
- Columbia University, Hunter College
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
philosopher, journalist, essayist, playwright, French resistance fighter, poet, association football player, opinion journalist
- Algiers 1 University
Xenophon
historian, mercenary, philosopher, military personnel
Giovanni Papini (1881-1956)
poet, journalist, literary critic, biographer, philosopher