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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
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
philosopher, theologian, poet, literary critic
- University of Copenhagen, Østre Borgerdyd school
Homer
poet
Langston Hughes (1901-1967)
poet, playwright, essayist, journalist, biographer, opinion journalist
- Lincoln University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
carpenter, publisher, essayist, printer, nurse, school teacher, journalist, poet
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
teacher, sailor, lecturer, poet, essayist, literary critic, art collector
- The Academy of Management Annals, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
poet, autobiographer, playwright, journalist, traveler, cut-paper artist, director, Fairy tale teller, librettist
- Slagelse Gymnasium, University of Copenhagen
James Hogg (1770-1835)
poet, biographer