Who Was Alive

Germaine de Staël

Genevan-French author

Born 22 April 1766 · died 14 July 1817, aged 51

Who was alive at the same time as Germaine de Staël?

  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. Germaine de Staël
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven
  13. Napoleon
  14. Jane Austen
  15. Lord Byron
  16. Alexander Pushkin
  17. Victor Hugo
  18. Hans Christian Andersen
  19. Edgar Allan Poe
  20. Abraham Lincoln
  21. Charles Darwin
  22. Charles Dickens
  23. Richard Wagner
  24. Otto von Bismarck
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When Germaine de Staël was born, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 16, George Washington was 34, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 10, Voltaire was 71 and Immanuel Kant was 42.

When Germaine de Staël died, Abraham Lincoln was 8, Napoleon was 47, Charles Darwin was 8, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 67 and Victor Hugo was 15.

Born during Germaine de Staël’s lifetime: Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Charles Darwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin and Hans Christian Andersen.

Not quite contemporaries: Karl Marx was born about a year after Germaine de Staël died, Leo Tolstoy was born 11 years after Germaine de Staël died, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born 4 years after Germaine de Staël died and Louis Pasteur was born 5 years after Germaine de Staël died.

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  2. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  3. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  5. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  10. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  11. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  12. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  13. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  15. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  16. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  17. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  18. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  19. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  20. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  21. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  22. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  23. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  24. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  25. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  26. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  27. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  28. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  29. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  30. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  31. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  32. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  33. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  34. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  35. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  36. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  37. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  38. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  39. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
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  44. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  45. William Blake 1757 – 1827
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  54. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
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  57. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
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  59. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
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  63. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  64. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
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  66. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  67. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  68. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  69. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  70. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
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  138. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
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  142. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
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