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Georg Büchner
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Georg Büchner

German playwright

Born 17 October 1813 · died 19 February 1837, aged 23
Also known as Karl Georg Büchner, Georg Buchner

Who was alive at the same time as Georg Büchner?

  1. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  4. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  5. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  6. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  7. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  8. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  9. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  10. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  11. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  12. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  13. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  14. Frédéric Chopin, 1810 – 1849
  15. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  16. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  17. Georg Büchner, 1813 – 1837
  18. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  19. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  20. Friedrich Engels, 1820 – 1895
  21. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  22. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  23. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  24. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910

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When Georg Büchner was born, Abraham Lincoln was 4, Napoleon was 44, Charles Darwin was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 64 and Victor Hugo was 11.

When Georg Büchner died, Karl Marx was 18, Abraham Lincoln was 28, Leo Tolstoy was 8, Charles Darwin was 28 and Victor Hugo was 34.

Born during Georg Büchner’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain, Otto von Bismarck, Louis Pasteur, Friedrich Engels and Alfred Nobel.

Not quite contemporaries: George Washington died about 14 years before Georg Büchner was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 7 years after Georg Büchner died, Immanuel Kant died about 9 years before Georg Büchner was born and Thomas Edison was born about 10 years after Georg Büchner died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

486 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Georg Büchner. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1825.

  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  10. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  11. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  12. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  15. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  16. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  17. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  18. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  19. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  20. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  22. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  23. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  25. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  26. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  27. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  28. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  29. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  30. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  31. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  32. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  33. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  34. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  35. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  36. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  37. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  38. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  39. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  40. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  41. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  42. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  43. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  44. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  45. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  46. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  47. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  48. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  49. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  50. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  51. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  52. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  53. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  54. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  55. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  56. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  57. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  58. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  59. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  60. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  61. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  62. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  63. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  64. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  65. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  66. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  67. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  68. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  69. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  70. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  71. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  72. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  73. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  74. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  75. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  76. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  77. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  78. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  79. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  80. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  81. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  82. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  83. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  84. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  85. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  86. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  87. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  88. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  89. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  90. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  91. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  92. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  93. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  94. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  95. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  96. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  97. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  98. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  99. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  100. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  101. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  102. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  103. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  104. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  105. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  106. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  107. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  108. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  109. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  110. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  111. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  112. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  113. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  114. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  115. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  116. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  117. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  118. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  119. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  120. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  121. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  122. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  123. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  124. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  125. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  126. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  127. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  128. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  129. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  130. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  131. Andrew Carnegie 1835 – 1919
  132. Ramakrishna 1836 – 1886
  133. Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888
  134. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  135. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  136. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  137. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  138. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  139. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  140. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  141. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  142. George III 1738 – 1820
  143. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  144. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  145. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  146. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  147. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  148. Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
  149. Alexandre Dumas fils 1824 – 1895
  150. Henry Dunant 1828 – 1910