Who Was Alive

E. T. A. Hoffmann

German writer

Born 24 January 1776 · died 1822, aged 45 or 46

Who was alive at the same time as E. T. A. Hoffmann?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Carl Linnaeus
  4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  5. Adam Smith
  6. Immanuel Kant
  7. George Washington
  8. Thomas Jefferson
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  11. Ludwig van Beethoven
  12. Napoleon
  13. E. T. A. Hoffmann
  14. Lord Byron
  15. Alexander Pushkin
  16. Victor Hugo
  17. Hans Christian Andersen
  18. Edgar Allan Poe
  19. Abraham Lincoln
  20. Charles Darwin
  21. Charles Dickens
  22. Otto von Bismarck
  23. Karl Marx
  24. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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When E. T. A. Hoffmann was born, Napoleon was 6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 26, George Washington was 43, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 19 and Voltaire was 81.

When E. T. A. Hoffmann died, Karl Marx was 3 or 4, Abraham Lincoln was 12 or 13, Charles Darwin was 12 or 13, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 72 or 73 and Victor Hugo was 19 or 20.

Born during E. T. A. Hoffmann’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo Tolstoy was born 6 years after E. T. A. Hoffmann died, Mark Twain was born 13 years after E. T. A. Hoffmann died, Alfred Nobel was born 11 years after E. T. A. Hoffmann died and Jules Verne was born 6 years after E. T. A. Hoffmann died.

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  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
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  4. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
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  6. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  8. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  9. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  10. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  12. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
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  14. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  15. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
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