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Gottfried Keller
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Gottfried Keller

Swiss poet

Born 19 July 1819 · died 15 July 1890, aged 70

Who was alive at the same time as Gottfried Keller?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  3. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  4. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  5. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  6. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  7. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  8. Gottfried Keller, 1819 – 1890
  9. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  10. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  11. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  14. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  15. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  16. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  17. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  18. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  19. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  22. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  23. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  24. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945

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When Gottfried Keller was born, Karl Marx was 1, Abraham Lincoln was 10, Napoleon was 49, Charles Darwin was 10 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 69.

When Gottfried Keller died, Adolf Hitler was 1, Albert Einstein was 11, Vladimir Lenin was 20, Mahatma Gandhi was 20 and Leo Tolstoy was 61.

Born during Gottfried Keller’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Salvador Dalí was born about 14 years after Gottfried Keller died, Mao Zedong was born about 3 years after Gottfried Keller died, Charles de Gaulle was born months after Gottfried Keller died and Walt Disney was born about 11 years after Gottfried Keller died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,197 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gottfried Keller. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1855.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  5. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  6. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  14. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  15. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  16. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  17. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  18. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  21. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  22. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  23. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  24. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  25. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  39. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  40. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  41. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  42. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  43. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  44. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  45. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  46. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  47. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  48. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  49. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  50. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  51. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  52. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  53. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  54. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  55. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  56. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  57. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  58. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  59. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  60. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  61. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  62. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  63. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  64. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  65. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  66. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  67. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  68. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  69. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  70. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  71. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  72. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  73. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  74. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  75. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  76. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  77. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  78. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  79. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  80. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  81. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  82. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  83. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  84. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  85. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  86. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  87. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  88. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  89. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  90. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  91. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  92. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  93. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  94. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  95. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  96. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  97. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  98. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  99. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  100. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  101. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  102. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  103. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  104. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  105. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  106. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  107. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  108. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  109. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  110. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  111. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  112. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  113. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  114. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  115. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  116. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  117. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  118. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  119. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  120. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  121. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  122. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  123. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  124. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  125. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  126. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  127. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  128. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  129. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  130. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  131. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  132. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  133. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  134. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  135. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  136. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  137. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  138. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  139. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  140. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  141. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  142. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  143. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  144. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  145. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  146. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  147. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  148. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  149. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  150. André Gide 1869 – 1951