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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
philosopher, poet, composer, pedagogue, classical philologist, music critic, classical scholar, playwright
- University of Bonn, Leipzig University
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
art critic, art historian, philosopher, painter, sociologist, poet, literary critic, architect, journalist, aesthetician, daguerreotypist
- University of Oxford, King's College London
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
poet, literary critic, essayist, philosopher, academic
- University of London, University of Ibadan
Anne Fine (born 1947)
poet
- University of Warwick
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
poet, playwright, linguist, translator, musicologist, biographer, judge, poet lawyer, lawyer, historian, literary critic
- University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh School of Law
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
poet, autobiographer, playwright, journalist, traveler, cut-paper artist, director, Fairy tale teller, librettist
- Slagelse Gymnasium, University of Copenhagen
Voltaire (1694-1778)
philosopher, poet, historian, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, diarist, poet lawyer, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand
James Hogg (1770-1835)
poet, biographer