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Gérard de Nerval
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Gérard de Nerval

French writer and translator

Born 22 May 1808 · died 26 January 1855, aged 46
Also known as Gérard Labrunie, Jerar de Nerval

Who was alive at the same time as Gérard de Nerval?

  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. Gérard de Nerval, 1808 – 1855
  10. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  11. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  12. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  13. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  14. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  15. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  16. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  18. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  19. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  20. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  22. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  23. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  24. Oscar Wilde, 1854 – 1900

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When Gérard de Nerval was born, Napoleon was 38, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 58, Victor Hugo was 6, Alexander Pushkin was 8 and Hans Christian Andersen was 3.

When Gérard de Nerval died, Karl Marx was 36, Abraham Lincoln was 45, Leo Tolstoy was 26, Charles Darwin was 45 and Victor Hugo was 52.

Born during Gérard de Nerval’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Mahatma Gandhi was born about 14 years after Gérard de Nerval died, George Washington died about 9 years before Gérard de Nerval was born, Immanuel Kant died about 4 years before Gérard de Nerval was born and Sigmund Freud was born about a year after Gérard de Nerval died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

656 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gérard de Nerval. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1832.

  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. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  32. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  33. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  34. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  35. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  36. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  37. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  38. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  39. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  40. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  41. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  42. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  43. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  44. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  45. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  46. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  47. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  48. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  49. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  50. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  51. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  52. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  53. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  54. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  55. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  56. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  57. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  58. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  59. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  60. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  61. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  62. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  63. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  64. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  65. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  66. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  67. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  68. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  69. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  70. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  71. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  72. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  73. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  74. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  75. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  76. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  77. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  78. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  79. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  80. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  81. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  82. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  83. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  84. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  85. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  86. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  87. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  88. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  89. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  90. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  91. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  92. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  93. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  94. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  95. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  96. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  97. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  98. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  99. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  100. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  101. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  102. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  103. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  104. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  105. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  106. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  107. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  108. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  109. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  110. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  111. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  112. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  113. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  114. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  115. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  116. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  117. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  118. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  119. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  120. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  121. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  122. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  123. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  124. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  125. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  126. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  127. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  128. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  129. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  130. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  131. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  132. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  133. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  134. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  135. William James 1842 – 1910
  136. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  137. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  138. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  139. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  140. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  141. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  142. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  143. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  144. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  145. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  146. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  147. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  148. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  149. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896
  150. August Strindberg 1849 – 1912