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Ludwig Tieck
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Ludwig Tieck

Prussian poet and critic

Born 31 May 1773 · died 28 April 1853, aged 79
Also known as Johann Ludwig Tieck, L. Tieck

Who was alive at the same time as Ludwig Tieck?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  3. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  4. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  5. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  6. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  9. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  10. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  11. Ludwig Tieck, 1773 – 1853
  12. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  13. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  14. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  15. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  16. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  17. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  18. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  19. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  20. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  21. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  22. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  23. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  24. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890

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When Ludwig Tieck was born, Napoleon was 3, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 23, George Washington was 41, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 17 and Voltaire was 78.

When Ludwig Tieck died, Karl Marx was 34, Abraham Lincoln was 44, Leo Tolstoy was 24, Charles Darwin was 44 and Victor Hugo was 51.

Born during Ludwig Tieck’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Not quite contemporaries: Sigmund Freud was born about 3 years after Ludwig Tieck died, Marie Curie was born about 14 years after Ludwig Tieck died, Rabindranath Tagore was born about 8 years after Ludwig Tieck died and Anton Chekhov was born about 7 years after Ludwig Tieck died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

731 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ludwig Tieck. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1813.

  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. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  12. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  13. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  14. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  17. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  22. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  26. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  27. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  28. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  32. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  33. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  34. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  35. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  36. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  37. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  38. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  39. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  40. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  41. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  42. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  43. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  44. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  45. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  46. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  47. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  48. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  49. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  50. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  51. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  52. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  53. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  54. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  55. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  56. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  57. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  58. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  59. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  60. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  61. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  62. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  63. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  64. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  65. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  66. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  67. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  68. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  69. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  70. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  71. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  72. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  73. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  74. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  75. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  76. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  77. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  78. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  79. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  80. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  81. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  82. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  83. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  84. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  85. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  86. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  87. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  88. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  89. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  90. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  91. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  92. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  93. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  94. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  95. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  96. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  97. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  98. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  99. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  100. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  101. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  102. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  103. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  104. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  105. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  106. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  107. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  108. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  109. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  110. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  111. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  112. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  113. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  114. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  115. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  116. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  117. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  118. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  119. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  120. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  121. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  122. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  123. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  124. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  125. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  126. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  127. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  128. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  129. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  130. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  131. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  132. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  133. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  134. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  135. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  136. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  137. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  138. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  139. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  140. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  141. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  142. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  143. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  144. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  145. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  146. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  147. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  148. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  149. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  150. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786