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Étienne de La Boétie
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Étienne de La Boétie

French judge and writer

Born 1 November 1530 · died 18 August 1563, aged 32
Also known as Etienne de la boetie, On Voluntary Servitude

Who was alive at the same time as Étienne de La Boétie?

  1. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  2. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  3. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  4. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  5. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  6. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  7. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  8. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  9. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  10. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  11. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  12. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  13. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  14. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  15. Étienne de La Boétie, 1530 – 1563
  16. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  17. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  18. Francis Drake, c. 1540 – 1596
  19. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  20. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  21. Tycho Brahe, 1546 – 1601
  22. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  23. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  24. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635

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When Étienne de La Boétie was born, Michelangelo was 55, Martin Luther was 46, Nicolaus Copernicus was 57, Hernán Cortés was 44 or 45 and Jacques Cartier was 38.

When Étienne de La Boétie died, Michelangelo was 88, Elizabeth I was 29, Francis Bacon was 2, Akbar was 20 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 68.

Born during Étienne de La Boétie’s lifetime: Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Akbar, Giordano Bruno, Michel de Montaigne, Lope de Vega and Tycho Brahe.

Not quite contemporaries: William Shakespeare was born about a year after Étienne de La Boétie died, Leonardo da Vinci died about 11 years before Étienne de La Boétie was born, Galileo Galilei was born about a year after Étienne de La Boétie died and Niccolò Machiavelli died about 3 years before Étienne de La Boétie was born.

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The 134 best-known contemporaries

134 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Étienne de La Boétie. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1547.

  1. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  2. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  3. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  5. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  6. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  7. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  8. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  9. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  10. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  11. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  12. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  13. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  14. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  15. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  16. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  17. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  18. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  19. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  20. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  23. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  24. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  25. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  26. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  27. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  28. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  29. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  30. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  31. Babur 1483 – 1530
  32. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  33. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  34. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  35. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  36. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  37. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  38. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  39. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  40. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  41. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  42. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  43. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  44. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  45. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  46. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  47. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  48. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  49. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  50. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  51. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  52. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  53. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  54. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  55. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  56. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  57. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  58. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  59. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  60. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  61. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  62. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  63. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  64. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  65. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  66. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  67. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  68. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  69. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  70. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  71. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  72. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  73. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  74. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  75. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  76. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  77. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  78. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  79. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  80. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  81. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  82. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  83. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  84. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  85. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  86. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  87. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  88. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  89. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  90. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  91. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  92. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  93. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  94. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  95. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  96. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  97. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  98. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  99. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  100. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  101. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  102. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  103. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  104. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  105. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  106. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  107. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  108. James V 1512 – 1542
  109. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  110. Catherine Howard 1524 – 1542
  111. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  112. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  113. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 1527 – 1593
  114. Abraham Ortelius 1527 – 1598
  115. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 – 1576
  116. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  117. Sofonisba Anguissola 1532 – 1625
  118. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  119. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  120. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  121. Matteo Ricci 1552 – 1610
  122. Feodor I of Russia 1557 – 1598
  123. Elizabeth Báthory 1560 – 1614
  124. Luis de Góngora 1561 – 1627
  125. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  126. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  127. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  128. Charles IX of Sweden 1550 – 1611
  129. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  130. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  131. Jean Bodin 1530 – 1596
  132. Joseph of Anchieta 1534 – 1597
  133. Tomás Luis de Victoria c. 1548 – 1611
  134. Philip Sidney 1554 – 1586