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Hippolyte Taine
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Hippolyte Taine

French literary critic and historian

Born 21 April 1828 · died 5 March 1893, aged 64
Also known as Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, H. A. Taine, Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine

Who was alive at the same time as Hippolyte Taine?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  8. Hippolyte Taine, 1828 – 1893
  9. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  10. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  13. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  14. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  15. Marie Curie, 1867 – 1934
  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 Hippolyte Taine was born, Karl Marx was 9, Abraham Lincoln was 19, Charles Darwin was 19, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 78 and Victor Hugo was 26.

When Hippolyte Taine died, Adolf Hitler was 3, Albert Einstein was 13, Vladimir Lenin was 22, Mahatma Gandhi was 23 and Leo Tolstoy was 64.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon died about 7 years before Hippolyte Taine was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about a year before Hippolyte Taine was born, Salvador Dalí was born about 11 years after Hippolyte Taine died and Mao Zedong was born months after Hippolyte Taine died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,219 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Hippolyte Taine. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1861.

  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. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  7. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  8. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  9. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  11. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  12. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  13. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  14. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  15. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  17. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  18. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  19. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  20. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  21. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  22. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  23. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  24. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  25. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  26. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  27. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  28. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  29. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  30. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  31. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  32. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  33. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  34. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  35. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  36. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  37. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  38. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  39. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  40. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  41. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  42. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  43. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  44. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  45. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  46. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  47. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  48. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  49. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  50. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  51. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  52. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  53. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  54. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  55. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  56. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  57. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  58. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  59. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  60. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  61. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  62. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  63. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  64. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  65. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  66. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  67. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  68. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  69. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  70. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  71. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  72. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  73. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  74. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  75. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  76. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  77. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  78. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  79. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  80. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  81. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  82. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  83. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  84. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  85. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  86. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  87. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  88. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  89. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  90. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  91. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  92. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  93. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  94. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  95. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  96. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  97. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  98. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  99. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  100. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  101. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  102. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  103. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  104. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  105. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  106. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  107. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  108. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  109. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  110. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  111. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  112. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  113. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  114. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  115. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  116. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  117. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  118. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  119. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  120. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  121. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961
  122. Ho Chi Minh 1890 – 1969
  123. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  124. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  125. Sun Yat-sen 1866 – 1925
  126. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  127. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  128. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  129. Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962
  130. B. R. Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
  131. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  132. Martin Heidegger 1889 – 1976
  133. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  134. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  135. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  136. Konrad Adenauer 1876 – 1967
  137. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  138. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  139. Jack London 1876 – 1916
  140. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  141. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  142. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  143. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  144. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  145. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  146. André Gide 1869 – 1951
  147. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  148. Pearl S. Buck 1892 – 1973
  149. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  150. William McKinley 1843 – 1901