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Joseph von Fraunhofer
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Joseph von Fraunhofer

Physicist

Born 6 March 1787 · died 7 June 1826, aged 39
Also known as Joseph v. Frauenhofer, Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer

Who was alive at the same time as Joseph von Fraunhofer?

  1. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  2. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  3. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  4. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  5. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  10. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  11. Joseph von Fraunhofer, 1787 – 1826
  12. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  13. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  14. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  15. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  16. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  17. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  18. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  19. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  20. Richard Wagner, 1813 – 1883
  21. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  22. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  23. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  24. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895

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When Joseph von Fraunhofer was born, Napoleon was 17, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 37, George Washington was 55, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 31 and Immanuel Kant was 62.

When Joseph von Fraunhofer died, Karl Marx was 8, Abraham Lincoln was 17, Charles Darwin was 17, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 76 and Victor Hugo was 24.

Born during Joseph von Fraunhofer’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born about 2 years after Joseph von Fraunhofer died, Voltaire died about 9 years before Joseph von Fraunhofer was born, Mark Twain was born about 9 years after Joseph von Fraunhofer died and Jean-Jacques Rousseau died about 9 years before Joseph von Fraunhofer was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

486 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Joseph von Fraunhofer. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1807.

  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. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  12. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  13. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  14. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  15. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  16. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  17. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  21. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  22. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  23. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  25. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  26. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  27. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  28. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  29. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  30. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  31. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  32. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  33. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  34. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  35. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  36. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  37. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  38. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  39. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  40. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  41. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  42. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  43. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  44. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  45. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  46. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  47. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  48. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  49. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  50. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  51. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  52. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  53. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  54. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  55. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  56. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  57. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  58. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  59. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  60. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  61. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  62. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  63. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  64. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  65. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  66. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  67. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  68. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  69. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  70. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  71. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  72. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  73. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  74. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  75. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  76. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  77. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  78. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  79. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  80. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  81. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  82. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  83. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  84. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  85. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  86. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  87. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  88. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  89. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  90. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  91. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  92. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  93. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  94. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  95. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  96. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  97. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  98. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  99. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  100. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  101. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  102. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  103. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  104. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  105. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  106. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  107. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  108. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  109. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  110. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  111. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  112. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  113. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  114. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  115. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  116. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  117. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  118. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  119. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  120. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  121. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  122. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  123. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  124. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  125. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  126. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  127. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  128. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  129. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  130. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  131. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  132. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895
  133. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  134. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  135. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  136. George III 1738 – 1820
  137. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  138. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  139. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  140. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 1809 – 1865
  141. Joseph Smith 1805 – 1844
  142. Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 – 1913
  143. Alexandre Dumas fils 1824 – 1895
  144. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  145. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  146. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  147. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  148. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  149. Harriet Tubman c. 1821 – 1913
  150. Alexander II of Russia 1818 – 1881