Who Was Alive

Ludwig Feuerbach

German philosopher and anthropologist

Born 28 July 1804 · died 13 September 1872, aged 68

Who was alive at the same time as Ludwig Feuerbach?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Alexander Pushkin
  6. Victor Hugo
  7. Ludwig Feuerbach
  8. Hans Christian Andersen
  9. Abraham Lincoln
  10. Charles Darwin
  11. Charles Dickens
  12. Karl Marx
  13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  14. Leo Tolstoy
  15. Mark Twain
  16. Friedrich Nietzsche
  17. Thomas Edison
  18. Vincent van Gogh
  19. Sigmund Freud
  20. Anton Chekhov
  21. Rabindranath Tagore
  22. Marie Curie
  23. Mahatma Gandhi
  24. Vladimir Lenin
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Ludwig Feuerbach was born, Napoleon was 34, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54, Victor Hugo was 2, Alexander Pushkin was 5 and Thomas Jefferson was 61.

When Ludwig Feuerbach died, Karl Marx was 54, Vladimir Lenin was 2, Mahatma Gandhi was 2, Leo Tolstoy was 44 and Charles Darwin was 63.

Born during Ludwig Feuerbach’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Not quite contemporaries: Albert Einstein was born 7 years after Ludwig Feuerbach died, Joseph Stalin was born 6 years after Ludwig Feuerbach died, George Washington died 5 years before Ludwig Feuerbach was born and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 13 years before Ludwig Feuerbach was born.

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  2. Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865
  3. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  4. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  5. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  6. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  7. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  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. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  16. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  17. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  18. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  19. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  20. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  21. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  22. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  23. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  24. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  25. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  26. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  27. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  28. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  29. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  30. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  31. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  32. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  33. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
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