Who Was Alive

Max Stirner

German philosopher

Born 25 October 1806 · died 25–26 June 1856, aged 49

Who was alive at the same time as Max Stirner?

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Ludwig van Beethoven
  4. Napoleon
  5. Lord Byron
  6. Alexander Pushkin
  7. Victor Hugo
  8. Hans Christian Andersen
  9. Max Stirner
  10. Edgar Allan Poe
  11. Abraham Lincoln
  12. Charles Darwin
  13. Charles Dickens
  14. Otto von Bismarck
  15. Karl Marx
  16. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. Louis Pasteur
  18. Leo Tolstoy
  19. Mark Twain
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche
  21. Thomas Edison
  22. Vincent van Gogh
  23. Oscar Wilde
  24. Sigmund Freud
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When Max Stirner was born, Napoleon was 37, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 57, Victor Hugo was 4, Alexander Pushkin was 7 and Hans Christian Andersen was 1.

When Max Stirner died, Karl Marx was 38, Abraham Lincoln was 47, Leo Tolstoy was 27, Charles Darwin was 47 and Victor Hugo was 54.

Born during Max Stirner’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Edison.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 14 years after Max Stirner died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 13 years after Max Stirner died, George Washington died 7 years before Max Stirner was born and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 15 years before Max Stirner was born.

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All 295 contemporaries we track

  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. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  8. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  9. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
  11. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  12. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  13. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  14. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  15. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  16. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  17. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  18. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  19. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  20. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  21. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  22. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  23. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  24. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  25. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  26. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  27. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  28. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  29. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  30. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  31. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  32. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  33. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  34. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  35. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  36. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  37. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  38. Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
  39. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  40. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  41. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  42. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  43. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  44. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  45. Victoria 1819 – 1901
  46. Alexandre Dumas 1802 – 1870
  47. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  48. Søren Kierkegaard 1813 – 1855
  49. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  50. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  51. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  52. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  53. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  54. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  55. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  56. Johannes Brahms 1833 – 1897
  57. Anatole France 1844 – 1924
  58. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 – 1922
  59. Octave Mirbeau 1848 – 1917
  60. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  61. Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
  62. Ulysses S. Grant 1822 – 1885
  63. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  64. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  65. Nikolai Gogol 1808–1809 – 1851–1852
  66. Lewis Carroll 1832 – 1898
  67. Wilhelm Röntgen 1845 – 1923
  68. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882
  69. Claude Monet 1840 – 1926
  70. Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893
  71. Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894
  72. Ivan Turgenev 1818 – 1883
  73. John Stuart Mill 1806 – 1873
  74. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910
  75. Antonín Dvořák 1841 – 1904
  76. Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
  77. James A. Garfield 1831 – 1881
  78. Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886
  79. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  80. Grover Cleveland 1837 – 1908
  81. Andrew Johnson 1808 – 1875
  82. Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
  83. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  84. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  85. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  86. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  87. Arthur Rimbaud 1854 – 1891
  88. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  89. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  90. Mikhail Bakunin 1814 – 1876
  91. William McKinley 1843 – 1901
  92. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  93. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  94. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  95. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  96. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  97. Franklin Pierce 1804 – 1869
  98. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 – 1893
  99. Paul Cézanne 1839 – 1906
  100. Henryk Sienkiewicz 1846 – 1916
  101. Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881
  102. Taras Shevchenko 1814 – 1861
  103. George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  104. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  105. George Sand 1804 – 1876
  106. Benjamin Harrison 1833 – 1901
  107. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  108. Hector Berlioz 1803 – 1869
  109. Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
  110. James Prescott Joule 1818 – 1889
  111. Gregor Mendel 1822 – 1884
  112. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  113. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  114. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  115. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  116. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852
  117. Paul Gauguin 1848 – 1903
  118. Chester A. Arthur 1829 – 1886
  119. Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807 – 1882
  120. Robert Schumann 1810 – 1856
  121. Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
  122. Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
  123. Auguste Rodin 1840 – 1917
  124. Antoni Gaudí 1852 – 1926
  125. Henri Poincaré 1854 – 1912
  126. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  127. Napoleon III 1808 – 1873
  128. Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841
  129. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  130. Franz Liszt 1811 – 1886
  131. Theodor Mommsen 1817 – 1903
  132. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1832 – 1910
  133. Robert Koch 1843 – 1910
  134. Felix Mendelssohn 1809 – 1847
  135. Frédéric Mistral 1830 – 1914
  136. William James 1842 – 1910
  137. Ivan Pavlov 1849 – 1936
  138. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  139. Giosuè Carducci 1835 – 1907
  140. Sully Prudhomme 1839 – 1907
  141. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  142. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  143. Herbert Spencer 1820 – 1903
  144. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  145. Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  146. Peter Kropotkin 1842 – 1921
  147. Alfred Tennyson 1809 – 1892
  148. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896
  149. Pius X 1835 – 1914
  150. Paul Verlaine 1844 – 1896

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