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Sophie Germain
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Sophie Germain

French mathematician and physicist

Born 1 April 1776 · died 27 June 1831, aged 55

Who was alive at the same time as Sophie Germain?

  1. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  2. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  4. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  5. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  6. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  7. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  10. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  11. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  12. Sophie Germain, 1776 – 1831
  13. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  14. Alexander Pushkin, 1799 – 1837
  15. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  16. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 – 1875
  17. Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849
  18. Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865
  19. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  20. Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870
  21. Otto von Bismarck, 1815 – 1898
  22. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  23. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  24. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910

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When Sophie Germain was born, Napoleon was 6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 26, George Washington was 44, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 20 and Voltaire was 81.

When Sophie Germain died, Karl Marx was 13, Abraham Lincoln was 22, Leo Tolstoy was 2, Charles Darwin was 22 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 81.

Born during Sophie Germain’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens and Alexander Pushkin.

Not quite contemporaries: Friedrich Nietzsche was born about 13 years after Sophie Germain died, Mark Twain was born about 4 years after Sophie Germain died, Sarah Bernhardt was born about 13 years after Sophie Germain died and Alfred Nobel was born about 2 years after Sophie Germain died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

538 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Sophie Germain. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1804.

  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. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  12. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  14. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  18. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  19. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  20. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  24. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  25. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  26. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  27. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  28. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  29. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  30. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  31. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  32. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  33. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  34. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  35. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  36. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  37. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  38. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  39. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  40. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  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. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  54. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  55. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  56. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  57. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  58. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  59. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  60. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  61. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  62. Nikolai Gogol c. 1809 – c. 1852
  63. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  64. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  65. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  66. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  67. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  68. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  69. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  70. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  71. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  72. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  73. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  74. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  75. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  76. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  77. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  78. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  79. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  80. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  81. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  82. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  83. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  84. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  85. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  86. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  87. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  88. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  89. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  90. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  91. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  92. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  93. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  94. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  95. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  96. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  97. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  98. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  99. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  100. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  101. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  102. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  103. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  104. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  105. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  106. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  107. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  108. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  109. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  110. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  111. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  112. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  113. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  114. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  115. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  116. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  117. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  118. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  119. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  120. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  121. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  122. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  123. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  124. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  125. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  126. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  127. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  128. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  129. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  130. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  131. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  132. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  133. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 – 1864
  134. John Ruskin 1819 – 1900
  135. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882
  136. Alexis de Tocqueville 1805 – 1859
  137. Pope Leo XIII 1810 – 1903
  138. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  139. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  140. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  141. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  142. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  143. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  144. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  145. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  146. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  147. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866
  148. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  149. Ludwig Feuerbach 1804 – 1872
  150. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 – 1895