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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
Ernst Bloch (1885-1977)
philosopher, theologian
- University of Würzburg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Erasmus (1466-1536)
translator, philosopher, theologian, essayist, Bible translator, latinist, Latin Catholic priest, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity
- University of Paris, University of Cambridge
Alan Watts (1915-1973)
philosopher, theologian, Anglican priest, dramaturge, musician, videographer
- The King's School Canterbury, St Hugh's School
Benedict XVI (1927-2022)
Latin Catholic priest, pianist, philosopher, transitional deacon, Catholic deacon, Latin Catholic bishop, Catholic theologian, archbishop
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Ducal Georgianum
Pope Francis (born 1936)
Latin Catholic priest, chemist, theologian, preacher, confessor, pastor, Latin Catholic bishop, Catholic bishop
- Facultades de Filosofía y Teología de San Miguel, University of Buenos Aires
Carlo Maria Martini (1927-2012)
theologian, Catholic priest, biblical scholar, Catholic deacon, Catholic bishop
- Pontifical Gregorian University, Pontifical Biblical Institute
Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)
theologian, Christian minister
- Harvard University, Harvard College