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Born	June 30, 1807 • Ludwigsburg • Germany
Died	September 14, 1887 (aged 80) • Gmunden • Austria
Subjects Of Study	literature • realism

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German philosopher

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French-Swiss author

George Santayana

Spanish-American philosopher

Georg Brandes

Danish writer

Mikhail Bakhtin

Russian philosopher and literary critic

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English critic and poet

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Italian writer

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Friedrich Schiller

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Thomas Mann

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Arthur Schopenhauer

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