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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
philosopher, anthropologist, physicist, librarian, pedagogue, mathematician, philosopher of law
- University of Königsberg, Collegium Fridericianum
José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
philosopher, pedagogue, sociologist, mathematician, literary critic, opinion journalist, politician, poet, translator, essayist
- Universidad Central, University of Deusto
David Hume (1711-1776)
philosopher, economist, librarian, historian, essayist
- University of Edinburgh
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
mathematician, jurist, physicist, philosopher, diplomat, historian, librarian, musicologist, translator, music theorist, diplomatician, poet, engineer, zoologist, archivist, biologist, geologist, policy advisor, philosopher of law, logician
- University of Altdorf, Leipzig University
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
philosopher, composer, musicologist, sociologist, literary critic, music critic, aphorist, pianist, academic, aesthetician
- University of Oxford, Goethe University Frankfurt
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
playwright, philosopher, pedagogue, essayist, diarist, opinion journalist, Esperantist
- Kazan Imperial University
Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950)
poet, translator, philosopher, essayist, literary critic, professor, politician, civil servant, revolutionary, yogi, principal, editor, Vice-principal
- St Paul's School, University of Cambridge
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
biologist, linguist, paleontologist, translator, ichthyologist, zoologist, carcinologist, anatomist, photographer, philosopher, anthropologist, physiologist, naturalist, evolutionary biologist
- University College London, Charing Cross Hospital