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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
poet, satirist, philosopher, human rights activist, pamphleteer, Anglican priest, essayist, opinion journalist, public figure, priest
- Trinity College Dublin, University of Oxford
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
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
philosopher, poet, essayist, diarist, biographer, Unitarian pastor, Christian minister, orator, abolitionist
- Harvard Divinity School, Harvard College
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
mathematician, logician, photographer, poet, deacon, diarist, autobiographer, philosopher
- University of Oxford, Rugby School
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
poet, philosopher, essayist, autobiographer, diarist, translator, abolitionist, naturalist, ecologist, environmentalist
- Harvard College, Harvard University
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
philosopher, politician, entrepreneur, journalist, opinion journalist
- Thetford Grammar School
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand