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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

German poet and linguist

Born 2 July 1724 · died 14 March 1803, aged 78

Who was alive at the same time as Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  3. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  4. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  5. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  6. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  8. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  9. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  10. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 – 1803
  11. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  12. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  13. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  14. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  17. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  18. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  20. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  22. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  23. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  24. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885

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When Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was born, Isaac Newton was 81, Johann Sebastian Bach was 39, Voltaire was 29, Immanuel Kant was under a year old and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 12.

When Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock died, Napoleon was 33, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 53, Victor Hugo was 1, Immanuel Kant was 78 and Alexander Pushkin was 3.

Born during Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin and Thomas Jefferson.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born about 6 years after Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock died, Charles Darwin was born about 6 years after Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock died, Charles Dickens was born about 9 years after Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock died and Hans Christian Andersen was born about 2 years after Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

401 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1764.

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  9. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  10. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  11. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  13. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  14. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  15. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  16. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  17. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  18. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  19. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  21. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  22. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  23. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  24. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  25. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  26. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  27. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  28. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  29. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  30. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  31. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  32. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  33. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  34. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  35. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  36. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  37. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  38. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  39. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  40. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  41. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  42. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  43. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  44. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  45. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  46. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  47. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  48. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  49. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  50. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  51. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  52. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  53. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  54. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  55. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  56. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  57. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  58. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  59. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  60. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  61. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  62. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  63. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  64. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  65. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  66. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  67. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  68. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  69. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  70. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  71. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  72. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  73. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  74. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  75. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  76. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  77. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  78. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  79. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  80. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  81. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  82. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  83. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  84. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  85. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  86. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  87. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  88. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  89. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  90. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  91. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  92. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  93. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  94. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  95. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  96. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  97. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  98. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  99. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  100. George III 1738 – 1820
  101. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  102. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  103. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  104. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  105. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  106. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  107. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  108. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  109. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  110. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  111. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  112. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  113. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  114. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  115. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  116. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  117. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  118. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  119. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  120. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  121. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  122. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  123. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  124. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  125. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  126. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  127. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  128. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  129. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  130. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  131. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  132. Niels Henrik Abel 1802 – 1829
  133. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  134. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  135. William IV 1765 – 1837
  136. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  137. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  138. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  139. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  140. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  141. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  142. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  143. George IV 1762 – 1830
  144. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  145. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  146. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  147. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  148. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  149. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  150. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822