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Louis Pasteur & Otto von Bismarck

Did Louis Pasteur and Otto von Bismarck live at the same time?

Yes. Louis Pasteur and Otto von Bismarck lived at the same time for 73 years, from 1822 to 1895.[1][2][3][4]

Louis Pasteur · Otto von Bismarck · Born in 1822 · Born in 1815

Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
1822–1895
Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
1815–1898
Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
18151898
Louis Pasteur
Otto von Bismarck
Louis Pasteur
Science & Invention
Born in Dole
Died in Saint-Cloud
Otto von Bismarck
Politics & Leadership
Born in Schönhausen (Elbe)
Died in Friedrichsruh

World Events During Their Overlap

1825 First public railway opens in England
1833 Slavery abolished in British Empire
1838 First photograph of a person taken
1848 Revolutions of 1848 sweep Europe
1853 Crimean War begins
1859 Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
1861 American Civil War begins
1865 Abolition of slavery in the United States
1869 Suez Canal opens
1871 Unification of Germany
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa
1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage

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79 years overlap
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Sources

  1. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  2. Louis Pasteur (Q529) — Wikidata
  3. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  4. Otto von Bismarck (Q8442) — Wikidata