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Georg Simmel
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Georg Simmel

Prussian sociologist and philosopher

Born 1 March 1858 · died 26 September 1918, aged 60

Who was alive at the same time as Georg Simmel?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  4. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  5. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  6. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  7. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  8. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  9. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  10. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  11. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  12. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  13. Georg Simmel, 1858 – 1918
  14. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  15. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  16. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  17. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  18. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  19. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  20. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  21. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  22. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  23. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  24. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013

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When Georg Simmel was born, Karl Marx was 39, Abraham Lincoln was 49, Leo Tolstoy was 29, Charles Darwin was 49 and Victor Hugo was 56.

When Georg Simmel died, Adolf Hitler was 29, Albert Einstein was 39, Ronald Reagan was 7, Vladimir Lenin was 48 and Nelson Mandela was under a year old.

Born during Georg Simmel’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth II was born about 8 years after Georg Simmel died, Martin Luther King Jr. was born about 11 years after Georg Simmel died, Marilyn Monroe was born about 8 years after Georg Simmel died and Che Guevara was born about 10 years after Georg Simmel died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,720 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Georg Simmel. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1888.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  11. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  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. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  27. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  28. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  34. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  35. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  36. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  37. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  40. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  41. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  42. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  43. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  44. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  45. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  46. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  47. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  48. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  49. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  50. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  51. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  52. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  53. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  54. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  55. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  56. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  57. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  58. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  59. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  60. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  61. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  62. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  63. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  64. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  65. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  66. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  67. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  68. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  69. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  70. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  71. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  72. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  73. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  74. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  75. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  76. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  77. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  78. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  79. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  80. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  81. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  82. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  83. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  84. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  85. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  86. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  87. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  88. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  89. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  90. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  91. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  92. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  93. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  94. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  95. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  96. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  97. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  98. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  99. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  100. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  101. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  102. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  103. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  104. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  105. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  106. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  107. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  108. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  109. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  110. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  111. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  112. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  113. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  114. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  115. Ingmar Bergman 1918 – 2007
  116. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  117. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  118. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  119. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  120. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  121. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  122. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  123. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  124. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  125. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  126. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  127. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  128. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  129. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  130. Richard Feynman 1918 – 1988
  131. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  132. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  133. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  134. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  135. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  136. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  137. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  138. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  139. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  140. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  141. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  142. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  143. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  144. Vladimir Nabokov 1899 – 1977
  145. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  146. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  147. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  148. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  149. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  150. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881