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Richard Wagner & Victor Hugo

Did Richard Wagner and Victor Hugo live at the same time?

Yes. Richard Wagner and Victor Hugo lived at the same time for 70 years, from 1813 to 1883.[1][2][3][4]

Richard Wagner · Victor Hugo · Born in 1813 · Born in 1802

Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
1813–1883
Music
Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
1802–1885
Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
18021885
Richard Wagner
Victor Hugo
Richard Wagner
Music
Born in Leipzig
Died in Venice
Victor Hugo
Literature
Born in Besançon
Died in Paris

World Events During Their Overlap

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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Victor Hugo & Ralph Waldo Emerson
79 years overlap
Victor Hugo & Franz Liszt
74 years overlap
Victor Hugo & Charles Darwin
73 years overlap

Sources

  1. Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
  2. Richard Wagner (Q1511) — Wikidata
  3. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  4. Victor Hugo (Q535) — Wikidata