Who Was Alive
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedish scientist and physicist

Born 29 January 1688 (Julian calendar) · died 29 March 1772, aged 84
Also known as Emmanuel Swedenborg

Who was alive at the same time as Emanuel Swedenborg?

  1. John Locke, 1632 – 1704
  2. Louis XIV, 1638 – 1715
  3. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  4. Matsuo Bashō, 1644 – 1694
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646 – 1716
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  7. Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688 – 1772
  8. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  9. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  10. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  11. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  13. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  14. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  15. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  16. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  17. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  18. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  19. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  21. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  22. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  23. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831

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When Emanuel Swedenborg was born, Isaac Newton was 45, Johann Sebastian Bach was 2, John Locke was 55, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was 41 and Matsuo Bashō was 43 or 44.

When Emanuel Swedenborg died, Napoleon was 2, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 22, George Washington was 40, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 16 and Voltaire was 77.

Born during Emanuel Swedenborg’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith.

Not quite contemporaries: Molière died about 15 years before Emanuel Swedenborg was born, Jane Austen was born about 3 years after Emanuel Swedenborg died, Carl Friedrich Gauss was born about 5 years after Emanuel Swedenborg died and Baruch Spinoza died about 11 years before Emanuel Swedenborg was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

305 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Emanuel Swedenborg. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1730.

  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. John Locke 1632 – 1704
  15. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
  16. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Louis XIV 1638 – 1715
  23. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  24. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  25. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  26. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  27. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  28. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  29. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  30. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  31. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  32. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  33. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  34. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  35. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  36. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  37. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  38. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  39. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  40. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
  41. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  42. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  43. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  44. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  45. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  46. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  47. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  48. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  49. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  50. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  51. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  52. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  53. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  54. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  55. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  56. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  57. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  58. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
  59. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
  60. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  61. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
  62. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  63. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  64. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  65. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  66. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  67. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  68. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  69. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  70. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  71. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
  72. George III 1738 – 1820
  73. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  74. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  75. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  76. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  77. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  78. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  79. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  80. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  81. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  82. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  83. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  84. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
  85. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  86. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  87. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  88. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  89. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  90. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  91. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  92. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
  93. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  94. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  95. William IV 1765 – 1837
  96. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  97. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  98. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  99. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  100. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  101. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  102. Anne, Queen of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
  103. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  104. George IV 1762 – 1830
  105. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  106. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  107. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  108. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  109. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  110. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  111. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  112. William III of England 1650 – 1702
  113. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  114. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  115. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  116. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  117. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  118. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  119. James II of England 1633 – 1701
  120. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  121. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  122. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  123. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  124. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  125. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  126. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  127. Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626 – 1689
  128. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  129. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  130. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  131. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  132. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  133. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1636 – 1711
  134. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  135. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  136. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  137. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  138. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  139. John III Sobieski 1629 – 1696
  140. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  141. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  142. John Bunyan 1628 – 1688
  143. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  144. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  145. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  146. Charles II of Spain 1661 – 1700
  147. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  148. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  149. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  150. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789