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Ralph Waldo Emerson & Victor Hugo

Did Ralph Waldo Emerson and Victor Hugo live at the same time?

Yes. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Victor Hugo lived at the same time for 79 years, from 1803 to 1882.[1][2][3][4]

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Victor Hugo · Born in 1803 · Born in 1802

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803–1882
Philosophy & Thought
Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
1802–1885
Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
18021885
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Victor Hugo
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy & Thought
Born in Boston
Died in Concord
Victor Hugo
Literature
Born in Besançon
Died in Paris

World Events During Their Overlap

1804 Haiti declares independence
1805 Battle of Trafalgar
1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated
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

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72 years overlap
Ralph Waldo Emerson & Franz Liszt
71 years overlap
Victor Hugo & Franz Liszt
74 years overlap
Victor Hugo & Charles Darwin
73 years overlap
Victor Hugo & Giuseppe Verdi
72 years overlap

Sources

  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
  2. Ralph Waldo Emerson (Q48226) — Wikidata
  3. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  4. Victor Hugo (Q535) — Wikidata