Who Was Alive

Alexander von Humboldt

Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer

Born 14 September 1769 · died 6 May 1859, aged 89

Who was alive at the same time as Alexander von Humboldt?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  3. Immanuel Kant
  4. George Washington
  5. Thomas Jefferson
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven
  9. Napoleon
  10. Alexander von Humboldt
  11. Alexander Pushkin
  12. Victor Hugo
  13. Hans Christian Andersen
  14. Abraham Lincoln
  15. Charles Darwin
  16. Charles Dickens
  17. Karl Marx
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  19. Leo Tolstoy
  20. Mark Twain
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche
  22. Thomas Edison
  23. Vincent van Gogh
  24. Sigmund Freud
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When Alexander von Humboldt was born, Napoleon was under a year old, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 20, George Washington was 37, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 13 and Voltaire was 74.

When Alexander von Humboldt died, Karl Marx was 41, Abraham Lincoln was 50, Leo Tolstoy was 30, Charles Darwin was 50 and Victor Hugo was 57.

Born during Alexander von Humboldt’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 11 years after Alexander von Humboldt died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 10 years after Alexander von Humboldt died, Marie Curie was born 8 years after Alexander von Humboldt died and Rabindranath Tagore was born 2 years after Alexander von Humboldt died.

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  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  19. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  31. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  32. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  33. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  34. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  35. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
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