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Carl Zeiss
ZEISS Microscopy from Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Carl Zeiss

German physicist

Born 11 September 1816 · died 3 December 1888, aged 72

Who was alive at the same time as Carl Zeiss?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  8. Carl Zeiss, 1816 – 1888
  9. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  11. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  12. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  15. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  16. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  17. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  18. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  19. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  20. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  21. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  24. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973

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When Carl Zeiss was born, Abraham Lincoln was 7, Napoleon was 47, Charles Darwin was 7, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 67 and Victor Hugo was 14.

When Carl Zeiss died, Albert Einstein was 9, Vladimir Lenin was 18, Mahatma Gandhi was 19, Leo Tolstoy was 60 and Joseph Stalin was 9.

Born during Carl Zeiss’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about a year after Carl Zeiss died, Charlie Chaplin was born about a year after Carl Zeiss died, Immanuel Kant died about 12 years before Carl Zeiss was born and Mao Zedong was born about 5 years after Carl Zeiss died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,175 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Carl Zeiss. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1852.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  40. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  41. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  42. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  43. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  44. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  45. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  46. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  47. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  48. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  49. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  50. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  51. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  52. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  53. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  54. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  55. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  56. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  57. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  58. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  59. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  60. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  61. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  62. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  63. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  64. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  65. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  66. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  67. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  68. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  69. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  70. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  71. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  72. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  73. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  74. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  75. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  76. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  77. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  78. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  79. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  80. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  81. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  82. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  83. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  84. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  85. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  86. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  87. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  88. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  89. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  90. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  91. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  92. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  93. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  94. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  95. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  96. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  97. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  98. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  99. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  100. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  101. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  102. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  103. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  104. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  105. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  106. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  107. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  108. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  109. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  110. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  111. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  112. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  113. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  114. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  115. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  116. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  117. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  118. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  119. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  120. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  121. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  122. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  123. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  124. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  125. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  126. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  127. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  128. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  129. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  130. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  131. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  132. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  133. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  134. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  135. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  136. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  137. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  138. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  139. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  140. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  141. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  142. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  143. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  144. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  145. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  146. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  147. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  148. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  149. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  150. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859