Who Was Alive
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Prussian architect and planner

Born 13 March 1781 · died 9 October 1841, aged 60
Also known as Carl Friedrich Schinkel, K. F. Schinkel, Karl Fr. Schinkel

Who was alive at the same time as Karl Friedrich Schinkel?

  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. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1781 – 1841
  11. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  12. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  13. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  14. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  15. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  16. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  17. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  18. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  19. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  20. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  21. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  22. Louis Pasteur, 1822 – 1895
  23. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  24. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910

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When Karl Friedrich Schinkel was born, Napoleon was 11, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 31, George Washington was 49, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 25 and Immanuel Kant was 56.

When Karl Friedrich Schinkel died, Karl Marx was 23, Abraham Lincoln was 32, Leo Tolstoy was 13, Charles Darwin was 32 and Victor Hugo was 39.

Born during Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Not quite contemporaries: Vincent van Gogh was born about 12 years after Karl Friedrich Schinkel died, Voltaire died about 3 years before Karl Friedrich Schinkel was born, Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 3 years after Karl Friedrich Schinkel died and Thomas Edison was born about 6 years after Karl Friedrich Schinkel died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

615 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1811.

  1. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  4. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  5. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  7. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  23. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  29. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  32. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  33. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  34. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  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. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  41. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  42. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  43. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  44. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  45. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  46. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  47. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  48. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  49. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  50. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  51. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  52. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  53. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  54. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  55. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  56. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  57. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  58. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  59. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  60. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  61. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  62. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  63. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  64. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  65. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  66. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  67. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  68. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  69. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  70. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  71. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  72. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  73. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  74. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  75. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  76. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  77. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  78. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  79. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  80. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  81. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  82. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  83. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  84. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  85. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  86. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  87. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  88. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  89. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  90. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  91. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  92. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  93. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  94. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  95. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  96. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  97. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  98. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  99. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  100. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  101. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  102. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  103. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  104. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  105. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  106. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  107. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  108. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  109. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  110. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  111. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  112. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  113. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  114. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  115. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  116. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  117. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  118. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  119. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  120. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  121. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  122. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  123. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  124. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  125. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  126. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  127. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  128. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  129. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  130. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  131. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  132. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  133. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  134. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  135. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  136. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  137. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  138. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  139. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  140. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  141. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  142. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  143. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  144. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  145. Pope Pius X 1835 – 1914
  146. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  147. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  148. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  149. Edgar Degas 1834 – 1917
  150. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882