Who Was Alive

Friedrich Schiller

German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian

Born 10 November 1759 · died 9 May 1805, aged 45

Who was alive at the same time as Friedrich Schiller?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Leonhard Euler
  4. Carl Linnaeus
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Adam Smith
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. James Cook
  9. George Washington
  10. John Adams
  11. Thomas Jefferson
  12. Francisco Goya
  13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  15. Friedrich Schiller
  16. Ludwig van Beethoven
  17. Napoleon
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  19. Jane Austen
  20. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  21. Lord Byron
  22. Alexander Pushkin
  23. Victor Hugo
  24. Hans Christian Andersen
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When Friedrich Schiller was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 10, George Washington was 27, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 3, Voltaire was 64 and Immanuel Kant was 35.

When Friedrich Schiller died, Napoleon was 35, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 55, Victor Hugo was 3, Alexander Pushkin was 5 and Hans Christian Andersen was under a year old.

Born during Friedrich Schiller’s lifetime: Napoleon, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born 13 years after Friedrich Schiller died, Abraham Lincoln was born 4 years after Friedrich Schiller died, Charles Darwin was born 4 years after Friedrich Schiller died and Johann Sebastian Bach died 9 years before Friedrich Schiller was born.

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  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  10. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  12. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  13. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  14. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  15. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  16. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  17. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  20. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  21. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  22. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  23. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  24. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  25. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  26. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  27. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
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