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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
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
poet, playwright, linguist, translator, musicologist, biographer, judge, poet lawyer, lawyer, historian, literary critic
- University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh School of Law
Robert Sobel (1931-1999)
chess player, historian, economist
- City College of New York, New York University
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
playwright, historian, literary critic, teacher, poet, opinion journalist
- Imperial St. Petersburg University
William J. Mann (born 1963)
historian, journalist, biographer
- Wesleyan University
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
Antal Szerb (1901-1945)
translator, poet, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar
- Piarist Gymnasium of Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University
Mark Evanier (born 1952)
historian