Who Was Alive

Heinrich Heine

German poet, writer and literary critic

Born 13 December 1797 · died 17 February 1856, aged 58

Who was alive at the same time as Heinrich Heine?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Lord Byron
  8. Heinrich Heine
  9. Alexander Pushkin
  10. Victor Hugo
  11. Hans Christian Andersen
  12. Edgar Allan Poe
  13. Abraham Lincoln
  14. Charles Darwin
  15. Charles Dickens
  16. Otto von Bismarck
  17. Karl Marx
  18. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  19. Leo Tolstoy
  20. Mark Twain
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche
  22. Thomas Edison
  23. Vincent van Gogh
  24. Oscar Wilde
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When Heinrich Heine was born, Napoleon was 28, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 48, George Washington was 65, Immanuel Kant was 73 and Thomas Jefferson was 54.

When Heinrich Heine died, Karl Marx was 37, Abraham Lincoln was 47, Leo Tolstoy was 27, Charles Darwin was 47 and Victor Hugo was 53.

Born during Heinrich Heine’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 14 years after Heinrich Heine died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 13 years after Heinrich Heine died, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 6 years before Heinrich Heine was born and Sigmund Freud was born months after Heinrich Heine died.

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All 307 contemporaries we track

  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. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  13. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  22. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  23. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  24. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  25. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  26. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  27. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  28. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  29. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  30. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  31. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  32. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  33. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  34. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  35. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  36. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  37. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  38. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  39. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  40. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  41. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  42. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  43. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  44. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  45. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  46. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  47. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  48. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  49. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  50. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  51. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  52. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  53. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  54. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  55. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  56. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  57. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  58. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  59. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  60. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  61. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  62. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  63. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  64. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  65. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  66. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  67. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  68. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  69. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  70. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  71. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  72. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  73. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  74. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  75. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  76. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  77. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  78. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  79. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  80. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  81. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
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  83. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  84. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
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  87. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
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  91. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  92. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
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  95. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
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  116. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  117. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  118. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  119. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
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  122. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  123. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
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  126. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
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  128. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
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  135. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  136. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
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  140. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
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  143. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  144. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  145. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  146. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
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  148. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
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