Who Was Alive

Achim von Arnim

Prussian poet and novelist

Born 26 January 1781 · died 21 January 1831, aged 49
Also known as Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Carl von Arnim

Who was alive at the same time as Achim von Arnim?

  1. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  2. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  3. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  4. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  5. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  10. Achim von Arnim, 1781 – 1831
  11. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  12. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  13. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  14. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  15. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  16. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  17. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  20. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  21. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  23. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  24. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910

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When Achim von Arnim was born, Napoleon was 11, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 31, George Washington was 48, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 24 and Immanuel Kant was 56.

When Achim von Arnim died, Karl Marx was 12, Abraham Lincoln was 21, Leo Tolstoy was 2, Charles Darwin was 21 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 81.

Born during Achim von Arnim’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Voltaire died about 3 years before Achim von Arnim was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 13 years after Achim von Arnim died, Mark Twain was born about 4 years after Achim von Arnim died and Jean-Jacques Rousseau died about 3 years before Achim von Arnim was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

528 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Achim von Arnim. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1806.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  20. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  21. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  22. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  30. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  31. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  32. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  33. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  34. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  35. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  36. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  37. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  38. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  39. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  40. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  41. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  42. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  43. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  44. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  45. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  46. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  47. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  48. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  49. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  50. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  51. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  52. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  53. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  54. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  55. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  56. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  57. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  58. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  59. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  60. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  61. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  62. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  63. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  64. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  65. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  66. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  67. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  68. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  69. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  70. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  71. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  72. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  73. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  74. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  75. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  76. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  77. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  78. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  79. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  80. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  81. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  82. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  83. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  84. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  85. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  86. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  87. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  88. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  89. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  90. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  91. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  92. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  93. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  94. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  95. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  96. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  97. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  98. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  99. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  100. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  101. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  102. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  103. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  104. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  105. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  106. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  107. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  108. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  109. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  110. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  111. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  112. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  113. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  114. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  115. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  116. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  117. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  118. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  119. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  120. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  121. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  122. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  123. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  124. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  125. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  126. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  127. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  128. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  129. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  130. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  131. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  132. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  133. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  134. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  135. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  136. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  137. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  138. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  139. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  140. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  141. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  142. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  143. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  144. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  145. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  146. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  147. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  148. George III 1738 – 1820
  149. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  150. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873