Who Was Alive
Christian Doppler
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Christian Doppler

Austrian mathematician and physicist

Born 29 November 1803 · died 17 March 1853, aged 49
Also known as Christian Dopplerr, Doppler, Christian Andreas Doppler

Who was alive at the same time as Christian Doppler?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  5. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  6. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  7. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  8. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  9. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  10. Christian Doppler, 1803 – 1853
  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 Christian Doppler was born, Napoleon was 34, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54, Victor Hugo was 1, Immanuel Kant was 79 and Alexander Pushkin was 4.

When Christian Doppler died, Karl Marx was 34, Abraham Lincoln was 44, Leo Tolstoy was 24, Charles Darwin was 44 and Victor Hugo was 51.

Born during Christian Doppler’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 4 years before Christian Doppler was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 12 years before Christian Doppler was born, Vincent van Gogh was born months after Christian Doppler died and Sigmund Freud was born about 3 years after Christian Doppler died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

647 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Christian Doppler. 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. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  20. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  21. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  22. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  23. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  25. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  26. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  27. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  28. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  29. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  30. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  31. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  32. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  33. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  34. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  35. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  36. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  37. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  38. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  39. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  40. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  41. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  42. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  43. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  44. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  45. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  46. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  47. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  48. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  49. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  50. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  51. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  52. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  53. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  54. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  55. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  56. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  57. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  58. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  59. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  60. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  61. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  62. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  63. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  64. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  65. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  66. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  67. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  68. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  69. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  70. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  71. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  72. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  73. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  74. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  75. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  76. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  77. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  78. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  79. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  80. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  81. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  82. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  83. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  84. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  85. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  86. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  87. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  88. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  89. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  90. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  91. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  92. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  93. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  94. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  95. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  96. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  97. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  98. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  99. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  100. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  101. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  102. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  103. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  104. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  105. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  106. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  107. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  108. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  109. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  110. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  111. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  112. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  113. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  114. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  115. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  116. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  117. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  118. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  119. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  120. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  121. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  122. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  123. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  124. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  125. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  126. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  127. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  128. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  129. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  130. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  131. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  132. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  133. William James 1842 – 1910
  134. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  135. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  136. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  137. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  138. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  139. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  140. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  141. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  142. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  143. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  144. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  145. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  146. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  147. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  148. August Strindberg 1849 – 1912
  149. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  150. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864