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Jacob Grimm
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Jacob Grimm

German philologist and linguist

Born 4 January 1785 · died 20 September 1863, aged 78
Also known as Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Giacomo Grimm

Who was alive at the same time as Jacob Grimm?

  1. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  2. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  3. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  7. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  8. Jacob Grimm, 1785 – 1863
  9. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  10. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  11. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  12. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  13. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  14. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  15. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  16. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  17. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  18. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  19. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  20. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  21. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  22. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  23. Anton Chekhov, 1860 – 1904
  24. Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941

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When Jacob Grimm was born, Napoleon was 15, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 35, George Washington was 52, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 28 and Immanuel Kant was 60.

When Jacob Grimm died, Karl Marx was 45, Abraham Lincoln was 54, Leo Tolstoy was 35, Charles Darwin was 54 and Victor Hugo was 61.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born about 7 years after Jacob Grimm died, Mahatma Gandhi was born about 6 years after Jacob Grimm died, Winston Churchill was born about 11 years after Jacob Grimm died and Voltaire died about 7 years before Jacob Grimm was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

841 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jacob Grimm. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1824.

  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. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  15. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  24. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  25. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  26. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  27. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  28. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  29. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  30. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  31. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  32. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  33. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  34. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  35. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  36. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  37. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  38. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  39. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  40. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  41. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  42. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  43. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  44. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  45. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  46. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  47. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  48. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  49. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  50. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  51. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  52. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  53. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  54. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  55. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  56. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  57. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  58. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  59. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  60. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  61. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  62. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  63. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  64. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  65. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  66. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  67. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  68. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  69. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  70. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  71. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  72. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  73. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  74. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  75. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  76. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  77. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  78. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  79. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  80. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  81. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  82. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  83. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  84. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  85. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  86. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  87. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  88. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  89. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  90. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  91. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  92. Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
  93. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  94. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  95. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  96. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  97. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  98. William Howard Taft 1857 – 1930
  99. Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924
  100. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  101. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  102. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  103. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  104. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  105. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  106. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  107. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  108. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  109. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  110. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  111. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  112. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  113. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  114. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  115. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  116. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 – 1917
  117. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  118. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  119. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  120. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  121. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  122. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  123. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  124. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  125. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  126. Henri Bergson 1859 – 1941
  127. Swami Vivekananda 1863 – 1902
  128. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  129. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  130. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  131. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  132. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  133. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  134. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  135. Knut Hamsun 1859 – 1952
  136. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  137. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  138. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  139. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  140. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  141. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  142. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  143. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  144. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  145. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  146. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  147. Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 – 1949
  148. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  149. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  150. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848