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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
Montesquieu (1689-1755)
philosopher, sociologist, lawyer, judge, encyclopédistes, historian, politician, jurist
- College of Juilly, Lycée Saint-Louis
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
poet, literary critic, essayist, philosopher, academic
- University of London, University of Ibadan
Cass Sunstein (born 1954)
jurist, political scientist, economist, lawyer, philosopher
- Harvard Law School, Harvard College
Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013)
philosopher
- University of Wisconsin–Madison, Colorado State University
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)
philosopher
- University of Wrocław, University of Marburg
Kelly Oliver (born 1958)
philosopher, women's rights activist, academic
- Northwestern University
François Fénelon (1651-1715)
philosopher, theologian, poet, Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- University of Paris