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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
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
poet, diplomat, politician, lyricist, autobiographer
- University of Chile
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
politician, historian, philosopher, political theorist, military theorist, translator, poet, diplomat, playwright
- University of Florence
Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
poet, lyricist, diplomat, philosopher, translator, essayist, politician
- University of California, Berkeley, Colegio Williams
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
politician, lawyer, diplomat, essayist, playwright, biographer, journalist, historian
Henry van Dyke (1852-1933)
diplomat, poet
- Princeton University, Princeton Theological Seminary