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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Prussian mathematician

Born 10 December 1804 · died 18 February 1851, aged 46
Also known as Jacobi, C. G. J. Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacobi

Who was alive at the same time as Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  6. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  7. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  8. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  9. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  10. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, 1804 – 1851
  11. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  12. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  13. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  14. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  15. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  16. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  17. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  18. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  19. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  20. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  21. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  22. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  23. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  24. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931

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When Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was born, Napoleon was 35, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 55, Victor Hugo was 2, Alexander Pushkin was 5 and Thomas Jefferson was 61.

When Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi died, Karl Marx was 32, Abraham Lincoln was 42, Leo Tolstoy was 22, Charles Darwin was 42 and Victor Hugo was 48.

Born during Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison and Mark Twain.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died about 5 years before Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 13 years before Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was born, Vincent van Gogh was born about 2 years after Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi died and Immanuel Kant died months before Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

627 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1828.

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  12. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  25. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  26. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  27. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  28. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  29. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  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. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  38. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  39. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  40. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  41. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  42. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  43. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  44. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  45. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  46. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  47. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  48. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  49. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  50. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  51. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  52. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  53. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  54. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  55. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  56. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  57. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  58. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  59. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  60. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  61. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  62. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  63. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  64. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  65. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  66. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  67. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  68. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  69. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  70. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  71. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  72. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  73. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  74. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  75. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  76. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  77. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  78. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  79. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  80. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  81. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  82. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  83. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  84. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  85. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  86. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  87. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  88. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  89. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  90. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  91. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  92. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  93. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  94. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  95. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  96. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  97. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  98. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  99. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  100. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  101. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  102. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  103. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  104. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  105. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  106. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  107. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  108. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  109. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  110. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  111. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  112. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  113. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  114. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  115. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  116. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  117. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  118. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  119. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  120. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  121. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  122. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  123. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  124. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  125. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  126. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  127. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  128. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  129. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  130. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  131. William James 1842 – 1910
  132. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  133. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  134. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  135. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  136. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  137. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  138. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  139. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  140. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  141. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  142. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  143. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  144. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  145. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  146. August Strindberg 1849 – 1912
  147. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  148. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  149. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  150. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917