Who Was Alive

Carl von Clausewitz

German-Prussian general and military theorist

Born 1 June 1780 · died 16 November 1831, aged 51

Who was alive at the same time as Carl von Clausewitz?

  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. Adam Smith
  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. Carl von Clausewitz
  11. Lord Byron
  12. Alexander Pushkin
  13. Victor Hugo
  14. Hans Christian Andersen
  15. Edgar Allan Poe
  16. Abraham Lincoln
  17. Charles Darwin
  18. Charles Dickens
  19. Richard Wagner
  20. Otto von Bismarck
  21. Karl Marx
  22. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. Louis Pasteur
  24. Leo Tolstoy
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When Carl von Clausewitz was born, Napoleon was 10, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 30, George Washington was 48, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 24 and Immanuel Kant was 56.

When Carl von Clausewitz died, Karl Marx was 13, Abraham Lincoln was 22, Leo Tolstoy was 3, Charles Darwin was 22 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 82.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Voltaire died 2 years before Carl von Clausewitz was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born 13 years after Carl von Clausewitz died, Mark Twain was born 4 years after Carl von Clausewitz died and Jean-Jacques Rousseau died 2 years before Carl von Clausewitz was born.

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  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
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  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 Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  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. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  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
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  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
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