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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
philosopher, botanist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, literary, autobiographer, music theorist, pedagogue, naturalist, playwright, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist, essayist, music critic
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
linguist, literary historian, historian, translator, mathematician, philosopher, essayist, literary critic, teacher
- University of Edinburgh, Annan Academy
Gustav Schwab (1792-1850)
journalist, poet, mythographer, high school teacher, pastor
- University of Tübingen, Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium
Louise Michel (1830-1905)
teacher, poet, pedagogue, woman of letters, journalist, communard, anarchist, politician
Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852)
linguist, poet, translator, literary critic, teacher
- Moscow university boarding school
Josef Pekař (1870-1937)
historian, pedagogue, literary historian
- Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Bessie Emery Head (1937-1986)
journalist, teacher
- International Writing Program
Hervey Allen (1889-1949)
literary critic, poet, biographer, teacher
- University of Pittsburgh, Shady Side Academy