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Friedrich Hebbel
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Friedrich Hebbel

German poet and playwright

Born 18 March 1813 · died 13 December 1863, aged 50
Also known as Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Who was alive at the same time as Friedrich Hebbel?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  6. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  7. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  8. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  9. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  10. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  11. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  12. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  13. Friedrich Hebbel, 1813 – 1863
  14. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  15. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  16. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  17. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  20. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  21. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900
  22. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  23. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  24. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941

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When Friedrich Hebbel was born, Abraham Lincoln was 4, Napoleon was 43, Charles Darwin was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 63 and Victor Hugo was 11.

When Friedrich Hebbel died, Karl Marx was 45, Abraham Lincoln was 54, Leo Tolstoy was 35, Charles Darwin was 54 and Victor Hugo was 61.

Born during Friedrich Hebbel’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud and Mark Twain.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 7 years after Friedrich Hebbel died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 6 years after Friedrich Hebbel died, George Washington died about 14 years before Friedrich Hebbel was born and Winston Churchill was born about 11 years after Friedrich Hebbel died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

767 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Friedrich Hebbel. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1838.

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  14. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  22. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  23. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  24. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  25. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  26. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  27. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  28. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  29. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  30. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  31. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  32. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  33. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  34. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  35. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  36. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  37. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  38. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  39. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  40. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  41. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  42. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  43. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  44. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  45. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  46. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  47. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  48. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  49. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  50. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  51. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  52. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  53. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  54. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  55. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  56. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  57. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  58. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  59. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  60. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  61. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  62. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  63. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  64. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  65. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  66. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  67. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  68. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  69. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  70. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  71. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  72. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  73. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  74. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  75. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  76. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  77. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  78. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  79. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  80. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  81. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  82. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  83. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  84. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  85. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  86. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  87. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  88. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  89. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  90. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  91. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  92. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  93. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  94. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  95. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  96. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  97. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  98. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  99. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  100. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  101. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  102. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  103. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  104. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  105. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  106. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  107. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  108. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  109. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  110. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  111. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  112. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  113. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  114. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  115. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  116. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  117. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  118. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  119. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  120. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  121. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  122. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  123. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  124. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  125. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  126. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  127. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  128. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  129. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  130. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  131. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  132. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  133. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  134. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  135. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  136. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  137. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  138. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  139. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  140. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  141. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  142. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  143. Pierre Curie 1859 – 1906
  144. Claude Debussy 1862 – 1918
  145. Wilhelm II 1859 – 1941
  146. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  147. Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
  148. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  149. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  150. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827