Who Was Alive

Novalis

German poet and writer

Born 2 May 1772 · died 25 March 1801, aged 28

Who was alive at the same time as Novalis?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Leonhard Euler
  4. Carl Linnaeus
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. Adam Smith
  7. Immanuel Kant
  8. James Cook
  9. George Washington
  10. John Adams
  11. Thomas Jefferson
  12. Francisco Goya
  13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  15. Friedrich Schiller
  16. Ludwig van Beethoven
  17. Napoleon
  18. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  19. Novalis
  20. Jane Austen
  21. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  22. Lord Byron
  23. Michael Faraday
  24. Alexander Pushkin
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 Novalis was born, Napoleon was 2, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 22, George Washington was 40, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 16 and Voltaire was 77.

When Novalis died, Napoleon was 31, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 51, Immanuel Kant was 76, Alexander Pushkin was 1 and Thomas Jefferson was 57.

Born during Novalis’s lifetime: Alexander Pushkin, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Michael Faraday, Honoré de Balzac, Simón Bolívar and Arthur Schopenhauer.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born 8 years after Novalis died, Charles Darwin was born 8 years after Novalis died, Victor Hugo was born about a year after Novalis died and Charles Dickens was born 11 years after Novalis died.

Compare

All 140 contemporaries we track

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  7. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  8. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  11. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  12. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  24. Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Honoré de Balzac 1799 – 1850
  27. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  28. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  29. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  30. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  31. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  32. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  33. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  34. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  35. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  36. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  37. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  38. Catherine II of Russia 1729 – 1796
  39. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  40. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  41. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  42. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  43. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  44. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  45. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  46. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  47. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  48. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  49. Millard Fillmore 1800 – 1874
  50. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  51. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  52. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  53. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  54. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  55. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  56. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  57. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  58. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  59. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  60. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  61. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  62. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  63. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  64. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  65. Louis XVI of France 1754 – 1793
  66. Frederick II of Prussia 1712 – 1786
  67. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  68. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  69. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  70. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  71. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  72. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  73. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  74. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  75. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  76. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  77. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  78. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  79. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  80. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  81. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  82. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  83. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  84. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  85. Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  86. George III of Great Britain 1738 – 1820
  87. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  88. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  89. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  90. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  91. Louis XV of France 1710 – 1774
  92. Maria Theresa of Austria 1717 – 1780
  93. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  94. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  95. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  96. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  97. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  98. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  99. Horatio Nelson 1758 – 1805
  100. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  101. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  102. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  103. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  104. Georg Simon Ohm 1789 – 1854
  105. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  106. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  107. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  108. Shaka Zulu 1785–1789 – 1828
  109. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  110. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  111. Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  112. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  113. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  114. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1791 – 1872
  115. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  116. Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  117. William IV 1765 – 1837
  118. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  119. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  120. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  121. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  122. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  123. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  124. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  125. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  126. George IV of the United Kingdom 1762 – 1830
  127. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  128. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  129. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  130. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  131. Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  132. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  133. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  134. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  135. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  136. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  137. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  138. Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  139. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  140. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817