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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
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
politician, historian, philosopher, political theorist, military theorist, translator, poet, diplomat, playwright
- University of Florence
John Locke (1632-1704)
philosopher, politician, physician, scientist, philosopher of law
- University of Oxford, Westminster School
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
inventor, explorer, physicist
- King's College London, Richard Huish College, Taunton
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand