Who Was Alive

Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher

Born 22 February 1788 · died 21 September 1860, aged 72

Who was alive at the same time as Arthur Schopenhauer?

  1. Immanuel Kant
  2. George Washington
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven
  7. Napoleon
  8. Arthur Schopenhauer
  9. Alexander Pushkin
  10. Victor Hugo
  11. Hans Christian Andersen
  12. Edgar Allan Poe
  13. Abraham Lincoln
  14. Charles Darwin
  15. Charles Dickens
  16. Karl Marx
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  18. Leo Tolstoy
  19. Mark Twain
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche
  21. Thomas Edison
  22. Vincent van Gogh
  23. Sigmund Freud
  24. Anton Chekhov
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When Arthur Schopenhauer was born, Napoleon was 18, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 38, George Washington was 56, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 32 and Immanuel Kant was 63.

When Arthur Schopenhauer died, Karl Marx was 42, Abraham Lincoln was 51, Leo Tolstoy was 32, Charles Darwin was 51 and Victor Hugo was 58.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 10 years after Arthur Schopenhauer died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 9 years after Arthur Schopenhauer died, Winston Churchill was born 14 years after Arthur Schopenhauer died and Voltaire died 10 years before Arthur Schopenhauer was born.

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  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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  13. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  14. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  15. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  16. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  17. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  18. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  19. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  20. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  21. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  22. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  23. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  24. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  30. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  31. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  32. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  33. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  34. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  35. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
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