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Born June 21, 1864 • Basel • Switzerland
Died July 19, 1945 (aged 81) • Basel • Switzerland
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Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Bernard Bosanquet
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Ernst H. Gombrich
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Motherwell, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1959
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