Who Was Alive

Johann Gottfried Herder

German philosopher, theologian, poet

Born 25 August 1744 · died 18 December 1803, aged 59

Who was alive at the same time as Johann Gottfried Herder?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  2. Voltaire
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Leonhard Euler
  5. Carl Linnaeus
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  7. Adam Smith
  8. Immanuel Kant
  9. James Cook
  10. George Washington
  11. John Adams
  12. Thomas Jefferson
  13. Johann Gottfried Herder
  14. Francisco Goya
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  17. Ludwig van Beethoven
  18. Napoleon
  19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  20. Jane Austen
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  22. Lord Byron
  23. Alexander Pushkin
  24. Victor Hugo
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When Johann Gottfried Herder was born, George Washington was 12, Johann Sebastian Bach was 59, Voltaire was 49, Immanuel Kant was 20 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 32.

When Johann Gottfried Herder died, Napoleon was 34, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54, Victor Hugo was 1, Immanuel Kant was 79 and Alexander Pushkin was 4.

Born during Johann Gottfried Herder’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Alexander Pushkin, Lord Byron and Jane Austen.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born 15 years after Johann Gottfried Herder died, Abraham Lincoln was born 6 years after Johann Gottfried Herder died, Charles Darwin was born 6 years after Johann Gottfried Herder died and Charles Dickens was born 9 years after Johann Gottfried Herder died.

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  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
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  8. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  9. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
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  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
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  14. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
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  18. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
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  24. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
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