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Ferdinand Lassalle
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Ferdinand Lassalle

Prussian writer

Born 11 April 1825 · died 31 August 1864, aged 39

Who was alive at the same time as Ferdinand Lassalle?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  5. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  6. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  7. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  8. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  9. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  10. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  11. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  12. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  14. Ferdinand Lassalle, 1825 – 1864
  15. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  16. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  19. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  20. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  21. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  22. Nikola Tesla, 1856 – 1943
  23. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  24. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941

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When Ferdinand Lassalle was born, Karl Marx was 6, Abraham Lincoln was 16, Charles Darwin was 16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 75 and Victor Hugo was 23.

When Ferdinand Lassalle died, Karl Marx was 46, Abraham Lincoln was 55, Leo Tolstoy was 35, Charles Darwin was 55 and Victor Hugo was 62.

Born during Ferdinand Lassalle’s lifetime: Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Rabindranath Tagore and Anton Chekhov.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 15 years after Ferdinand Lassalle died, Vladimir Lenin was born about 6 years after Ferdinand Lassalle died, Napoleon died about 4 years before Ferdinand Lassalle was born and Mahatma Gandhi was born about 5 years after Ferdinand Lassalle died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

746 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ferdinand Lassalle. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1845.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  8. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  11. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  12. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  24. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  25. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  26. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  27. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  28. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  29. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  30. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  31. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  32. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  33. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  34. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  35. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  36. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  37. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  38. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  39. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  40. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  41. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  42. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  43. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  44. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  45. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  46. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  47. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  48. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  49. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  50. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  51. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  52. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  53. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  54. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  55. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  56. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  57. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  58. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  59. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  60. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  61. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  62. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  63. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  64. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  65. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  66. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  67. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  68. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  69. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  70. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  71. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  72. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  73. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  74. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  75. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  76. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  77. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  78. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  79. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  80. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  81. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  82. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  83. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  84. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  85. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  86. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  87. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  88. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  89. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  90. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  91. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  92. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  93. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  94. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  95. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  96. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  97. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  98. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  99. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  100. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  101. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  102. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  103. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  104. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  105. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  106. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  107. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  108. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  109. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  110. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  111. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  112. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  113. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  114. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  115. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  116. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  117. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  118. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  119. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  120. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  121. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  122. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  123. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  124. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  125. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  126. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  127. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  128. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  129. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  130. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  131. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  132. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  133. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  134. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  135. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  136. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  137. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  138. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  139. Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
  140. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  141. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  142. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  143. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  144. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  145. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  146. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  147. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  148. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  149. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  150. Émile Durkheim 1858 – 1917