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Harold Bloom (1930-2019)
literary historian, professor, literary critic, journalist, literary theorist
- Yale University, Cornell University
Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
philosopher, essayist, pedagogue, translator, semiotician, literary critic, medievalist, literary scholar, historian
- University of Turin
David Lodge (born 1935)
playwright, literary critic, literary theorist, teacher
- University of Birmingham, University College London
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
philosopher, essayist, encyclopédistes, art critic, playwright, literary critic, correspondent, translator, historian, political scientist, lexicographer, art theorist, literary theorist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Saint-Louis
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian
- University of Marburg
James Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1889)
literary historian, historian, collector of fairy tales, literary scholar, collector, editor
- University of Cambridge
Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)
lexicographer, anthropologist, librarian, law librarian, pedagogue, linguist, literary scholar, Germanist, jurist, mythographer, collector of fairy tales, philologist
- University of Marburg, Humboldt University of Berlin