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Claude Adrien Helvétius
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Claude Adrien Helvétius

French philosopher

Born 26 January 1715 · died 26 December 1771, aged 56
Also known as Claude-Adrien Helvétius, Claude Adrien Helvetius, Claude-Adrien Helvetius

Who was alive at the same time as Claude Adrien Helvétius?

  1. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  4. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  7. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  8. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  9. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  11. Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1715 – 1771
  12. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  13. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  14. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  15. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  16. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  17. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  18. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  19. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  20. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  21. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  22. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  23. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831

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When Claude Adrien Helvétius was born, Isaac Newton was 72, Johann Sebastian Bach was 29, Voltaire was 20, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 2 and Benjamin Franklin was 9.

When Claude Adrien Helvétius died, Napoleon was 2, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 22, George Washington was 39, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 15 and Voltaire was 77.

Born during Claude Adrien Helvétius’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Not quite contemporaries: John Locke died about 11 years before Claude Adrien Helvétius was born, Jane Austen was born about 4 years after Claude Adrien Helvétius died, Carl Friedrich Gauss was born about 6 years after Claude Adrien Helvétius died and Simón Bolívar was born about 12 years after Claude Adrien Helvétius died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

261 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Claude Adrien Helvétius. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1743.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  4. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  15. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  16. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  17. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  18. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  19. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  20. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  21. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  23. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  24. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  25. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  26. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  27. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  28. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  29. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  30. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  31. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  32. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  33. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  34. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  35. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  36. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  37. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  38. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  39. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  40. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  41. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  42. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  43. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  44. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  45. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  46. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  47. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  48. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  49. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  50. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  51. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  52. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  53. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  54. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  55. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  56. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  57. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  58. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  59. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  60. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  61. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  62. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  63. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  64. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  65. George III 1738 – 1820
  66. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  67. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  68. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  69. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  70. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  71. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  72. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  73. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  74. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  75. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  76. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  77. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  78. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  79. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  80. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  81. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  82. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  83. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  84. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  85. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  86. William IV 1765 – 1837
  87. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  88. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  89. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  90. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  91. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  92. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  93. George IV 1762 – 1830
  94. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  95. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  96. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  97. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  98. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  99. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  100. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  101. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  102. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  103. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  104. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  105. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  106. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  107. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  108. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  109. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  110. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  111. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  112. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  113. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  114. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  115. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  116. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  117. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  118. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  119. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  120. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  121. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  122. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  123. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  124. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  125. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  126. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  127. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  128. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  129. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  130. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  131. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  132. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  133. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  134. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  135. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  136. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  137. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  138. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  139. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  140. Robert Owen 1771 – 1858
  141. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  142. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  143. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  144. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  145. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  146. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  147. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  148. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  149. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  150. Charles XIV John 1763 – 1844