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Franz Bopp
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Franz Bopp

Prussian linguist

Born 14 September 1791 · died 23 October 1867, aged 76

Who was alive at the same time as Franz Bopp?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  8. Franz Bopp, 1791 – 1867
  9. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  10. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  11. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  12. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  13. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  14. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  15. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  17. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  18. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  21. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  22. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  23. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  24. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941

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When Franz Bopp was born, Napoleon was 22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42, George Washington was 59, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 35 and Immanuel Kant was 67.

When Franz Bopp died, Karl Marx was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 39, Charles Darwin was 58, Victor Hugo was 65 and Vincent van Gogh was 14.

Born during Franz Bopp’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born about 12 years after Franz Bopp died, Vladimir Lenin was born about 3 years after Franz Bopp died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 2 years after Franz Bopp died and Joseph Stalin was born about 11 years after Franz Bopp died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

879 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Franz Bopp. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1829.

  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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  32. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  33. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  34. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  35. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  36. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  37. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  38. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  39. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  40. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  41. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  42. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  43. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  44. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  45. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  46. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  47. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  48. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  49. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  50. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  51. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  52. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  53. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  54. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  55. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  56. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  57. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  58. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  59. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  60. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  61. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  62. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  63. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  64. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  65. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  66. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  67. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  68. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  69. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  70. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  71. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  72. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  73. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  74. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  75. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  76. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  77. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  78. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  79. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  80. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  81. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  82. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  83. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  84. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  85. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  86. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  87. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  88. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  89. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  90. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  91. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  92. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  93. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  94. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  95. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  96. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  97. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  98. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  99. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  100. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  101. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  102. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  103. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  104. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  105. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  106. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  107. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  108. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  109. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  110. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  111. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  112. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  113. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  114. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  115. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  116. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  117. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  118. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  119. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  120. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  121. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  122. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  123. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  124. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  125. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  126. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  127. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  128. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  129. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  130. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  131. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  132. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  133. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  134. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  135. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  136. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  137. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  138. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  139. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  140. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  141. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  142. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  143. Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 1936
  144. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  145. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  146. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  147. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  148. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  149. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  150. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852