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Friedrich Wöhler
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Friedrich Wöhler

German chemist

Born 31 July 1800 · died 23 September 1882, aged 82

Who was alive at the same time as Friedrich Wöhler?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Friedrich Wöhler, 1800 – 1882
  6. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  7. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  8. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  9. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  10. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  12. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  13. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  15. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  16. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  17. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  18. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  19. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  20. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  21. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  24. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973

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When Friedrich Wöhler was born, Napoleon was 30, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 50, Immanuel Kant was 76, Alexander Pushkin was 1 and Thomas Jefferson was 57.

When Friedrich Wöhler died, Albert Einstein was 3, Karl Marx was 64, Vladimir Lenin was 12, Mahatma Gandhi was 12 and Leo Tolstoy was 54.

Born during Friedrich Wöhler’s lifetime: Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin and Joseph Stalin.

Not quite contemporaries: Adolf Hitler was born about 7 years after Friedrich Wöhler died, George Washington died about a year before Friedrich Wöhler was born, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died about 9 years before Friedrich Wöhler was born and Charlie Chaplin was born about 7 years after Friedrich Wöhler died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,074 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Friedrich Wöhler. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1841.

  1. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  2. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  3. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  4. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  5. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  6. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  26. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  27. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  28. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  31. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  32. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  33. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  34. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  35. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  36. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  37. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  38. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  39. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  40. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  41. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  42. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  43. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  44. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  45. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  46. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  47. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  48. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  49. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  50. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  51. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  52. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  53. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  54. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  55. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  56. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  57. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  58. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  59. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  60. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  61. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  62. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  63. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  64. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  65. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  66. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  67. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  68. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  69. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  70. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  71. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  72. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  73. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  74. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  75. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  76. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  77. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  78. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  79. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  80. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  81. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  82. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  83. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  84. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  85. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  86. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  87. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  88. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  89. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  90. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  91. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  92. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  93. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  94. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  95. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  96. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  97. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  98. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  99. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  100. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  101. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  102. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  103. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  104. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  105. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  106. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  107. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  108. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  109. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  110. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  111. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  112. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  113. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  114. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  115. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  116. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  117. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  118. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  119. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  120. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  121. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  122. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  123. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  124. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  125. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  126. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  127. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  128. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  129. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  130. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  131. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  132. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  133. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  134. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  135. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  136. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  137. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  138. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  139. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  140. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  141. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  142. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  143. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  144. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  145. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  146. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  147. Warren G. Harding 1865 – 1923
  148. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  149. Romain Rolland 1866 – 1944
  150. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832