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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
politician, postmaster, lawyer, statesperson, farmer, military officer
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
philosopher, judge, politician, lawyer, astrologer, scientist, historian
- University of Cambridge, University of Poitiers
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
economist, journalist, historian, philosopher, sociologist, revolutionary, poet, politician, social scientist, socialist
- University of Bonn, University of Jena
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian
- University of Marburg
Seneca
playwright, poet, philosopher, aphorist, statesperson, politician
Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada (1169-1247)
Catholic priest, historian, warrior, politician, scholar
- University of Bologna, University of Paris
Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987)
anthropologist, sociologist, poet, painter, journalist, politician, historian
- Columbia University, Baylor University
William Cobbett (1763-1835)
journalist, farmer, politician, biographer, historian