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Jean-François Champollion
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Jean-François Champollion

French Egyptologist

Born 23 December 1790 · died 4 March 1832, aged 41
Also known as Jean Francois Champollion, Jean François Champollion, Jean-Francois Champollion

Who was alive at the same time as Jean-François Champollion?

  1. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  2. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  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. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  9. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  10. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  11. Jean-François Champollion, 1790 – 1832
  12. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  13. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  14. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  15. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  16. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  17. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  20. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  21. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  22. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  23. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  24. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910

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When Jean-François Champollion was born, Napoleon was 21, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 41, George Washington was 58, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 34 and Immanuel Kant was 66.

When Jean-François Champollion died, Karl Marx was 13, Abraham Lincoln was 23, Leo Tolstoy was 3, Charles Darwin was 23 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 82.

Born during Jean-François Champollion’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Voltaire died about 12 years before Jean-François Champollion was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 12 years after Jean-François Champollion died, Thomas Edison was born about 15 years after Jean-François Champollion died and Mark Twain was born about 3 years after Jean-François Champollion died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

514 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Jean-François Champollion. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1811.

  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  21. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  22. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  23. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  24. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  25. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  26. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  27. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  28. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  29. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  30. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  31. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  32. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  33. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  34. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  35. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  36. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  37. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  38. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  39. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  40. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  41. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  42. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  43. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  44. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  45. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  46. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  47. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  48. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  49. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  50. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  51. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  52. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  53. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  54. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  55. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  56. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  57. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  58. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  59. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  60. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  61. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  62. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  63. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  64. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  65. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  66. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  67. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  68. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  69. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  70. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  71. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  72. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  73. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  74. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  75. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  76. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  77. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  78. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  79. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  80. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  81. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  82. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  83. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  84. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  85. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  86. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  87. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  88. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  89. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  90. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  91. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  92. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  93. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  94. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  95. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  96. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  97. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  98. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  99. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  100. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  101. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  102. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  103. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  104. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  105. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  106. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  107. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  108. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  109. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  110. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  111. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  112. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  113. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  114. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  115. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  116. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  117. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  118. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  119. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  120. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  121. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  122. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  123. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  124. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  125. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  126. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  127. Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883
  128. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  129. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  130. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  131. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  132. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  133. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  134. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  135. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  136. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  137. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  138. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  139. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  140. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  141. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  142. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  143. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  144. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  145. George III 1738 – 1820
  146. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  147. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  148. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  149. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  150. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844