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Adelbert von Chamisso
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Adelbert von Chamisso

German poet and botanist

Born 30 January 1781 · died 21 August 1838, aged 57
Also known as Comte de Louis Charles Adelaide, Louis de Chamissot de Boncourt

Who was alive at the same time as Adelbert von Chamisso?

  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. Adelbert von Chamisso, 1781 – 1838
  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. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  20. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  21. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  22. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  23. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  24. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910

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When Adelbert von Chamisso was born, Napoleon was 11, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 31, George Washington was 48, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 25 and Immanuel Kant was 56.

When Adelbert von Chamisso died, Karl Marx was 20, Abraham Lincoln was 29, Leo Tolstoy was 9, Charles Darwin was 29 and Victor Hugo was 36.

Born during Adelbert von Chamisso’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 15 years after Adelbert von Chamisso died, Voltaire died about 3 years before Adelbert von Chamisso was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 6 years after Adelbert von Chamisso died and Thomas Edison was born about 9 years after Adelbert von Chamisso died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

588 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Adelbert von Chamisso. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1810.

  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. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  29. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  32. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  33. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  34. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  35. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  36. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  37. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  38. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  39. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  40. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  41. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  42. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  43. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  44. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  45. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  46. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  47. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  48. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  49. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  50. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  51. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  52. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  53. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  54. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  55. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  56. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  57. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  58. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  59. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  60. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  61. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  62. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  63. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  64. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  65. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  66. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  67. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  68. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  69. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  70. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  71. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  72. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  73. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  74. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  75. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  76. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  77. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  78. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  79. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  80. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  81. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  82. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  83. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  84. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  85. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  86. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  87. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  88. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  89. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  90. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  91. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  92. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  93. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  94. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  95. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  96. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  97. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  98. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  99. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  100. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  101. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  102. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  103. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  104. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  105. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  106. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  107. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  108. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  109. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  110. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  111. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  112. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  113. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  114. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  115. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  116. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  117. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  118. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  119. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  120. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  121. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  122. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  123. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  124. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  125. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  126. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  127. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  128. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  129. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  130. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  131. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  132. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  133. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  134. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  135. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  136. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  137. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  138. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  139. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  140. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  141. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  142. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  143. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  144. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  145. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  146. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  147. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  148. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  149. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  150. Novalis 1772 – 1801