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Moses Mendelssohn
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Moses Mendelssohn

German philosopher

Born 6 September 1729 · died 4 January 1786, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Moses Mendelssohn?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  5. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  8. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  9. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  10. Moses Mendelssohn, 1729 – 1786
  11. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  12. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  13. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  14. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. James Madison, 1751 – 1836
  17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  18. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  19. Hokusai, 1760 – 1849
  20. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  21. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  22. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  23. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855

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When Moses Mendelssohn was born, Johann Sebastian Bach was 44, Voltaire was 34, Immanuel Kant was 5, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 17 and Adam Smith was 6.

When Moses Mendelssohn died, Napoleon was 16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 36, George Washington was 53, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 29 and Immanuel Kant was 61.

Born during Moses Mendelssohn’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Isaac Newton died about 2 years before Moses Mendelssohn was born, Alexander Pushkin was born about 13 years after Moses Mendelssohn died, Lord Byron was born about 2 years after Moses Mendelssohn died and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died about 13 years before Moses Mendelssohn was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

310 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Moses Mendelssohn. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1758.

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  13. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  14. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  15. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  17. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  18. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  19. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  20. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  21. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  22. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  23. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  24. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  25. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
  26. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  27. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  28. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  29. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  30. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  31. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  32. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  33. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  34. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  35. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  36. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  37. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  38. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  39. Daniel Defoe c. 1661 – 1731
  40. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  41. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  42. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  43. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  44. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  45. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  46. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  47. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  48. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  49. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  50. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  51. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  52. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  53. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  54. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  55. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  56. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  57. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  58. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  59. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  60. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  61. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  62. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  63. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  64. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  65. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  66. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  67. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  68. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  69. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  70. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  71. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  72. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  73. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  74. George III 1738 – 1820
  75. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  76. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  77. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  78. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  79. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  80. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  81. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  82. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  83. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  84. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  85. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  86. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  87. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  88. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  89. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  90. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  91. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  92. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  93. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
  94. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  95. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  96. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  97. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  98. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  99. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  100. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  101. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  102. William IV 1765 – 1837
  103. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  104. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  105. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  106. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  107. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  108. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  109. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  110. George IV 1762 – 1830
  111. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  112. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  113. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  114. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  115. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  116. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  117. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  118. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  119. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  120. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  121. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  122. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  123. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  124. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  125. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  126. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824
  127. Pope Pius VIII 1761 – 1830
  128. George II of Great Britain 1683 – 1760
  129. Daniel Bernoulli 1700 – 1782
  130. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746 – 1827
  131. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor 1768 – 1835
  132. Ivan Krylov 1769 – 1844
  133. José de San Martín 1778 – 1850
  134. Jöns Jacob Berzelius 1779 – 1848
  135. Emanuel Swedenborg 1688 – 1772
  136. Jean-Paul Marat 1743 – 1793
  137. J. M. W. Turner c. 1775 – 1851
  138. Pope Clement XII 1652 – 1740
  139. Nicolas Appert 1749 – 1841
  140. Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832
  141. Heinrich von Kleist 1777 – 1811
  142. Elizabeth of Russia 1709 – 1762
  143. Peter III of Russia 1728 – 1762
  144. Abigail Adams 1744 – 1818
  145. Nikolay Karamzin 1766 – 1826
  146. Vitus Bering 1681 – 1741
  147. Charles X of France 1757 – 1836
  148. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686 – 1736
  149. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741 – 1790
  150. William Pitt the Younger 1759 – 1806