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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 literary critic

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German philosopher

Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

George Santayana

Spanish-American philosopher

Georg Brandes

Danish writer

Mikhail Bakhtin

Russian philosopher and literary critic

T.E. Hulme

English critic and poet

Luigi Capuana

Italian writer

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Friedrich Schiller

German writer

Thomas Mann

German author

Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher

Otto Brahm

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Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

German philosopher and music critic

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