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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
philosopher, poet, composer, pedagogue, classical philologist, music critic, classical scholar, playwright
- University of Bonn, Leipzig University
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
political philosopher, journalist, autobiographer, essayist, political activist, diarist, philosopher, literary critic, feminist
- University of Paris, Lycée Fénelon, Paris
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
poet, literary, painter, philosopher, resistance fighter, illustrator, Nobel Prize winner, bookseller, pacifist, librettist
- Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)
philosopher, politician, anthropologist, photographer, pedagogue, professor, sociologist, psychologist, mythographer, ethnologist, researcher
- Paris Law Faculty
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
politician, historian, philosopher, political theorist, military theorist, translator, poet, diplomat, playwright
- University of Florence
Peter Kreeft (born 1937)
theologian, philosopher
- Fordham University, Yale University
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
poet, philosopher, essayist, autobiographer, diarist, translator, abolitionist, naturalist, ecologist, environmentalist
- Harvard College, Harvard University
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
playwright, philosopher, pedagogue, essayist, diarist, opinion journalist, Esperantist
- Kazan Imperial University