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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Austrian writer

Born 13 September 1830 · died 12 March 1916, aged 85
Also known as Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Marie von Dubsky

Who was alive at the same time as Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach?

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  2. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  3. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  4. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  5. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  6. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  7. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  8. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  9. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830 – 1916
  10. Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  13. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  14. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  15. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  16. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  17. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  18. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  19. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1880 – 1938
  20. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  21. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  22. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  23. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  24. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004

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When Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was born, Karl Marx was 12, Abraham Lincoln was 21, Leo Tolstoy was 2, Charles Darwin was 21 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 81.

When Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach died, Adolf Hitler was 26, Albert Einstein was 36, Ronald Reagan was 5, Vladimir Lenin was 45 and Mahatma Gandhi was 46.

Born during Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach’s lifetime: Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Not quite contemporaries: Nelson Mandela was born about 2 years after Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach died, Napoleon died about 9 years before Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was born, Ludwig van Beethoven died about 3 years before Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was born and Elizabeth II was born about 10 years after Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

1,785 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1873.

  1. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  2. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  3. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  4. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  5. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  8. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  9. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  10. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  11. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  12. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  13. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  14. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  15. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  16. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  17. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  18. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  19. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  20. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  21. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  22. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  23. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  24. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  25. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  26. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  27. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  28. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  29. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  30. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  31. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  32. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  33. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  34. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  35. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  36. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  37. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  38. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  39. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  40. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  41. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  42. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  43. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  44. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  45. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  46. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  47. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  48. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  49. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  50. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  51. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  52. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  53. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  54. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  55. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  56. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  57. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  58. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  59. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  60. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  61. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  62. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  63. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  64. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  65. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  66. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  67. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  68. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  69. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  70. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  71. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  72. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  73. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  74. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  75. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  76. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  77. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  78. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  79. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  80. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  81. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  82. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  83. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  84. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  85. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  86. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  87. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  88. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  89. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  90. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  91. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  92. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  93. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  94. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  95. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  96. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  97. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  98. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  99. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  100. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  101. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  102. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  103. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  104. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  105. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  106. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  107. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  108. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  109. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  110. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  111. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  112. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  113. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  114. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  115. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  116. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  117. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  118. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  119. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  120. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  121. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  122. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  123. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  124. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  125. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  126. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  127. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  128. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  129. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  130. Calvin Coolidge 1872 – 1933
  131. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  132. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  133. Kim Il Sung 1912 – 1994
  134. T. S. Eliot 1888 – 1965
  135. Kwame Nkrumah 1909 – 1972
  136. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  137. Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931
  138. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  139. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  140. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  141. Hirohito 1901 – 1989
  142. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  143. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  144. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  145. Selma Lagerlöf 1858 – 1940
  146. Bertolt Brecht 1898 – 1956
  147. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  148. W. B. Yeats 1865 – 1939
  149. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  150. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961