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Joseph de Maistre
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Joseph de Maistre

Sardinian philosopher and writer

Born 1 April 1753 · died 26 February 1821, aged 67
Also known as Joseph Marie de Maistre

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph de Maistre?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  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 Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  10. Joseph de Maistre, 1753 – 1821
  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. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  23. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  24. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883

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When Joseph de Maistre was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 3, George Washington was 21, Voltaire was 58, Immanuel Kant was 28 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 40.

When Joseph de Maistre died, Karl Marx was 2, Abraham Lincoln was 12, Napoleon was 51, Charles Darwin was 12 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 71.

Born during Joseph de Maistre’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born about 7 years after Joseph de Maistre died, Johann Sebastian Bach died about 3 years before Joseph de Maistre was born, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born months after Joseph de Maistre died and Mark Twain was born about 14 years after Joseph de Maistre died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

505 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph de Maistre. 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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  16. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  20. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  21. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  22. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  30. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  31. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  32. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  33. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  34. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  35. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  36. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  37. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  38. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  39. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  40. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  41. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  42. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  43. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  44. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  45. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  46. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  47. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  48. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  49. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  50. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  51. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  52. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  53. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  54. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  55. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  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. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  62. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  63. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  64. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  65. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  66. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  67. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  68. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  69. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  70. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  71. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  72. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  73. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  74. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  75. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  76. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  77. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  78. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  79. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  80. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  81. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  82. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  83. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  84. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  85. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  86. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  87. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  88. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  89. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  90. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  91. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  92. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  93. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  94. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  95. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  96. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  97. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  98. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  99. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  100. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  101. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  102. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  103. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  104. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  105. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  106. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  107. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  108. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  109. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  110. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  111. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  112. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  113. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  114. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  115. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  116. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  117. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  118. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  119. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  120. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  121. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  122. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  123. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  124. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  125. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  126. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  127. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  128. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  129. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  130. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  131. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  132. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  133. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  134. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  135. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  136. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  137. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  138. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  139. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  140. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  141. George III 1738 – 1820
  142. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  143. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  144. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  145. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  146. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  147. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  148. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  149. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  150. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798