Who Was Alive

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

German philosopher

Born 19 May 1762 · died 27–29 January 1814, aged 51

Who was alive at the same time as Johann Gottlieb Fichte?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Carl Linnaeus
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. Adam Smith
  6. Immanuel Kant
  7. George Washington
  8. Thomas Jefferson
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  11. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven
  13. Napoleon
  14. Jane Austen
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  16. Lord Byron
  17. Alexander Pushkin
  18. Victor Hugo
  19. Hans Christian Andersen
  20. Edgar Allan Poe
  21. Abraham Lincoln
  22. Charles Darwin
  23. Charles Dickens
  24. Richard Wagner
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When Johann Gottlieb Fichte was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 12, George Washington was 30, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 6, Voltaire was 67 and Immanuel Kant was 38.

When Johann Gottlieb Fichte died, Abraham Lincoln was 4, Napoleon was 44, Charles Darwin was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 64 and Victor Hugo was 11.

Born during Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born 4 years after Johann Gottlieb Fichte died, Leo Tolstoy was born 14 years after Johann Gottlieb Fichte died, Johann Sebastian Bach died 12 years before Johann Gottlieb Fichte was born and Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born 7 years after Johann Gottlieb Fichte died.

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  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
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  11. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
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