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Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Prussian art historian and archaeologist

Born 9 December 1717 · died 8 June 1768, aged 50
Also known as Giovanni Winkelmann, Johann Winkelmann, Ioann Vinkelman

Who was alive at the same time as Johann Joachim Winckelmann?

  1. Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1727
  2. Peter the Great, 1672 – 1725
  3. Antonio Vivaldi, 1678 – 1741
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  5. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  6. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  7. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  8. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  10. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1717 – 1768
  11. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  12. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  13. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  14. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  15. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  16. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  17. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  18. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  19. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  20. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  21. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  22. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  23. Andrew Jackson, 1767 – 1845
  24. John Quincy Adams, 1767 – 1848

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When Johann Joachim Winckelmann was born, Isaac Newton was 74, Johann Sebastian Bach was 32, Voltaire was 23, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 5 and Benjamin Franklin was 11.

When Johann Joachim Winckelmann died, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 18, George Washington was 36, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 12, Voltaire was 73 and Immanuel Kant was 44.

Born during Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s lifetime: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Cook.

Not quite contemporaries: Napoleon was born about a year after Johann Joachim Winckelmann died, Ludwig van Beethoven was born months after Johann Joachim Winckelmann died, John Locke died about 13 years before Johann Joachim Winckelmann was born and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about a year before Johann Joachim Winckelmann was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

243 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Johann Joachim Winckelmann. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1743.

  1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  9. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  12. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  13. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  14. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  15. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  16. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  17. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  18. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
  19. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  20. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  21. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  22. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  23. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  24. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  25. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  26. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  27. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  28. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  29. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  30. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  31. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  32. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  33. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  34. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  35. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  36. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  37. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  38. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  39. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  40. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  41. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  42. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  43. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  44. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  45. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  46. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  47. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  48. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  49. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  50. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  51. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  52. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  53. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  54. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  55. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  56. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  57. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
  58. George III 1738 – 1820
  59. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  60. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  61. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  62. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  63. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  64. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  65. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  66. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  67. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  68. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  69. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  70. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  71. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  72. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  73. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  74. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  75. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  76. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  77. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  78. William IV 1765 – 1837
  79. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  80. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  81. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  82. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  83. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  84. George IV 1762 – 1830
  85. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  86. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  87. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  88. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  89. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  90. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  91. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  92. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  93. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  94. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  95. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  96. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  97. Joseph Addison 1672 – 1719
  98. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  99. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  100. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  101. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  102. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  103. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  104. Christopher Wren 1632 – 1723
  105. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  106. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  107. George I of Great Britain 1660 – 1727
  108. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  109. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  110. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  111. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  112. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  113. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  114. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  115. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  116. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806
  117. Pope Clement XIII 1693 – 1769
  118. William Hogarth 1697 – 1764
  119. Henry Fielding 1707 – 1754
  120. Baron d'Holbach 1723 – 1789
  121. Oliver Goldsmith 1728 – 1774
  122. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742 – 1799
  123. Pope Benedict XIII 1649 – 1730
  124. Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714 – 1787
  125. Pope Clement XI 1649 – 1721
  126. Pope Innocent XIII 1655 – 1724
  127. Luigi Galvani 1737 – 1798
  128. Giambattista Vico 1668 – 1744
  129. Charles XII of Sweden 1682 – 1718
  130. Philip V of Spain 1683 – 1746
  131. Catherine I of Russia 1684 – 1727
  132. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 – 1740
  133. Nader Shah c. 1693 – 1747
  134. Pope Clement XIV 1705 – 1774
  135. Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1742 – 1786
  136. Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793
  137. Charles XIV John 1763 – 1844
  138. Laurence Sterne 1713 – 1768
  139. Maria Gaetana Agnesi 1718 – 1799
  140. Henri de Saint-Simon 1760 – c. 1826
  141. Anna of Russia 1693 – 1740
  142. John Wesley 1703 – 1791
  143. Claude Adrien Helvétius 1715 – 1771
  144. Charles Messier 1730 – 1817
  145. Giuseppe Piazzi 1746 – 1826
  146. Aaron Burr 1756 – 1836
  147. Selim III 1761 – 1808
  148. Joséphine de Beauharnais 1763 – 1814
  149. Joachim Murat 1767 – 1815
  150. Marquis de Lafayette 1757 – 1834