Who Was Alive

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist

Born 15 January 1809 · died 19 January 1865, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?

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When Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was born, Napoleon was 39, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 59, Victor Hugo was 6, Alexander Pushkin was 9 and Hans Christian Andersen was 3.

When Pierre-Joseph Proudhon died, Karl Marx was 46, Abraham Lincoln was 55, Leo Tolstoy was 36, Charles Darwin was 55 and Victor Hugo was 62.

Born during Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 14 years after Pierre-Joseph Proudhon died, Vladimir Lenin was born 5 years after Pierre-Joseph Proudhon died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 4 years after Pierre-Joseph Proudhon died and Joseph Stalin was born 13 years after Pierre-Joseph Proudhon died.

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  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
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  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  17. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  18. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  19. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  20. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  21. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
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