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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
composer, librettist, conductor, essayist, theatrical director, autobiographer, poet, pianist, music critic, diarist
- Leipzig University, Kreuzschule
Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)
autobiographer, diarist, dancer
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
essayist, autobiographer, diarist, literary critic, publisher, women's rights activist
- King's College London
Harold Nicolson (1886-1968)
horticulturist, politician, diplomat, diarist, journalist, biographer
- University of Oxford, Wellington College
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822)
composer, judge, caricaturist, painter, conductor, music critic, drawer, diarist, critic, director
- University of Königsberg
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
James Boswell (1740-1795)
diarist, lawyer, biographer
- University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow
Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896)
art historian, historian, diarist, literary critic, playwright, critic
- Lycée Condorcet