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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Swiss pedagogue

Born 12 January 1746 · died 17 February 1827, aged 81
Also known as Johann Pestalozzi, J. H. Pestalozzi

Who was alive at the same time as Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  5. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  6. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  7. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  8. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  9. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, 1746 – 1827
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  13. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  14. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  15. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  16. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  17. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  18. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  19. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  20. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  21. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  22. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  23. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  24. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881

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When Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was born, George Washington was 13, Johann Sebastian Bach was 60, Voltaire was 51, Immanuel Kant was 21 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 33.

When Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi died, Karl Marx was 8, Abraham Lincoln was 18, Charles Darwin was 18, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 77 and Victor Hugo was 24.

Born during Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Victor Hugo.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born about a year after Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi died, Mark Twain was born about 8 years after Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi died, Alfred Nobel was born about 6 years after Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi died and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born about 13 years after Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

553 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1787.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  11. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  18. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  24. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  26. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  27. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  28. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  29. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  30. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  31. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  32. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  33. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  34. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  35. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  36. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  37. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  38. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  39. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  40. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  41. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  42. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  43. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  44. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  45. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  46. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  47. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  48. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  49. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  50. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  51. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  52. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  53. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  54. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  55. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  56. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  57. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  58. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  59. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  60. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  61. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  62. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  63. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  64. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  65. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  66. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  67. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  68. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  69. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  70. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  71. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  72. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  73. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  74. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  75. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  76. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  77. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  78. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  79. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  80. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  81. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  82. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  83. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  84. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  85. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  86. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  87. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  88. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  89. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  90. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  91. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  92. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  93. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  94. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  95. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  96. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  97. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  98. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  99. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  100. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  101. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  102. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  103. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  104. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  105. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  106. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  107. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  108. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  109. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  110. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  111. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  112. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  113. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  114. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  115. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  116. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  117. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  118. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  119. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  120. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  121. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  122. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  123. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  124. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  125. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  126. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  127. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  128. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  129. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  130. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  131. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  132. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  133. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  134. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  135. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  136. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  137. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  138. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  139. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  140. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  141. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  142. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  143. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  144. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  145. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  146. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  147. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  148. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  149. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  150. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869