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Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

18021885

French novelist, poet, dramatist, and politician, known for impactful works such as Notre-Dame de Paris and Quatrevingt Treize, who also made contributions as an artist and human rights activist

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Elias Lönnrot

Elias Lönnrot

18021884

Finnish polymath who created the national epic Kalevala from traditional oral poetry and authored the first scientific text written in Finnish

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

18021870

Celebrated French writer, playwright, and novelist known for epic historical adventures like The Count of Monte Cristo and The forty-five guardsmen

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Niels Henrik Abel

Niels Henrik Abel

18021829

Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation and innovated in elliptic and Abelian functions

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Lajos Kossuth

Lajos Kossuth

18021894

Hungarian statesman and revolutionist who led the Hungarian State during the 1848–1849 war of independence, advocating for national sovereignty