Who Was Alive

Søren Kierkegaard

Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic

Born 5 May 1813 · died 11 November 1855, aged 42

Who was alive at the same time as Søren Kierkegaard?

  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. Edgar Allan Poe
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Charles Darwin
  12. Charles Dickens
  13. Søren Kierkegaard
  14. Richard Wagner
  15. Otto von Bismarck
  16. Karl Marx
  17. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  18. Louis Pasteur
  19. Leo Tolstoy
  20. Mark Twain
  21. Friedrich Nietzsche
  22. Thomas Edison
  23. Vincent van Gogh
  24. Oscar Wilde
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When Søren Kierkegaard was born, Abraham Lincoln was 4, Napoleon was 43, Charles Darwin was 4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 63 and Victor Hugo was 11.

When Søren Kierkegaard died, Karl Marx was 37, Abraham Lincoln was 46, Leo Tolstoy was 27, Charles Darwin was 46 and Victor Hugo was 53.

Born during Søren Kierkegaard’s lifetime: Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir Lenin was born 15 years after Søren Kierkegaard died, Mahatma Gandhi was born 14 years after Søren Kierkegaard died, George Washington died 14 years before Søren Kierkegaard was born and Immanuel Kant died 9 years before Søren Kierkegaard was born.

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  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. Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
  15. Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
  16. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  17. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  18. Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849
  19. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  20. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  21. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  22. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  23. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  24. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  25. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  26. Frédéric Chopin 1810 – 1849
  27. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  28. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  29. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  30. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  31. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  32. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  33. John Adams 1735 – 1826
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  36. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
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