Writers of the Industrial Revolution

The atlas holds 37 people and 763 moments here, from 1761 to 1840. The most recorded lives are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jane Austen and Alexander Pushkin.

Notable people

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
from 1765 to 1832
77 moments here
German poet, dramatist, novelist, scientist, theatre director, and statesman. Born in Frankfurt, Goethe studied in Leipzig and Strasbourg, practiced…
Jane Austen
from 1775 to 1817
48 moments here
English novelist Jane Austen spent her life in southern England, principally in Hampshire, Bath, Southampton, Chawton, and Winchester.…
Alexander Pushkin
from 1799 to 1837
39 moments here
Russian poet, novelist, playwright, and foundational figure of modern Russian literature. This chronology traces documented physical presences from…
George Washington
from 1775 to 1799
37 moments here
George Washington was a Virginia surveyor, planter, military commander, revolutionary leader, constitutional statesman, and the first president of…
Lord Byron
from 1788 to 1823
37 moments here
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), was a British poet, peer, and political speaker.…
Honoré de Balzac
from 1799 to 1840
36 moments here
French novelist and playwright, born in Tours and dead in Paris. Balzac created La Comédie humaine, an interlinked fictional panorama of…
Arthur Schopenhauer
from 1788 to 1833
35 moments here
German philosopher and writer, born in Danzig and dead in Frankfurt am Main. His documented movements included childhood residences in Hamburg and Le…
Carl Friedrich Gauss
from 1777 to 1833
34 moments here
German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist. Gauss was born in Brunswick, studied there and at Göttingen, worked privately in…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
from 1770 to 1831
32 moments here
German philosopher and a central figure of German idealism. His documented movements include formative study in Stuttgart and Tübingen; tutoring…
Hans Christian Andersen
from 1805 to 1840
31 moments here
Danish writer renowned for literary fairy tales including “The Little Mermaid,” “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Snow Queen,” and “The Ugly…
Charles Darwin
from 1809 to 1839
30 moments here
English naturalist, geologist, and biologist whose observations during the global voyage of HMS Beagle and subsequent research led to his theory of…
John Adams
from 1768 to 1826
30 moments here
American lawyer, revolutionary leader, diplomat, first vice president of the United States, and second U.S. president.…
Friedrich Schiller
from 1763 to 1805
29 moments here
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright, poet, philosopher, historian, and a central figure of Weimar Classicism.…
James Madison
from 1769 to 1836
28 moments here
James Madison (1751–1836) was a Virginia planter, revolutionary politician, delegate to the Continental and Confederation congresses, architect of…
Abraham Lincoln
from 1809 to 1838
25 moments here
American lawyer, Illinois legislator, congressman, and sixteenth president of the United States.…
Thomas Jefferson
from 1761 to 1826
25 moments here
Thomas Jefferson was an American lawyer, Virginia political leader, diplomat, secretary of state, vice president, and third president of the United…
Edgar Allan Poe
from 1809 to 1838
22 moments here
American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic whose work helped shape Gothic fiction, detective fiction, and early science fiction.…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
from 1762 to 1778
20 moments here
Genevan philosopher, writer, composer, and a major figure of the European Enlightenment. Rousseau’s documented movements ranged across Geneva, Savoy,…
Charles Dickens
from 1812 to 1840
19 moments here
English novelist, journalist, editor, social reformer, actor and celebrated public reader. This chronology traces documented residences, workplaces,…
Benjamin Franklin
from 1762 to 1790
19 moments here
American printer, scientist, civic leader, colonial agent, revolutionary statesman, and diplomat.…
Victor Hugo
from 1802 to 1840
16 moments here
French Romantic poet, novelist, dramatist, artist, activist, and politician. This chronology traces documented physical presences from his mobile…
Adam Smith
from 1764 to 1790
16 moments here
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist of the Scottish Enlightenment, author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the…
Michael Faraday
from 1791 to 1831
13 moments here
English chemist and physicist whose experimental work transformed the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.…
Alexandre Dumas
from 1802 to 1834
8 moments here
French novelist, playwright, journalist, and travel writer, also known as Alexandre Dumas père.…

Writers of the Industrial Revolution

Notable people

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jane Austen

Alexander Pushkin

George Washington

Lord Byron

Honoré de Balzac

Arthur Schopenhauer

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Hans Christian Andersen

Charles Darwin

John Adams

Friedrich Schiller

James Madison

Abraham Lincoln

Thomas Jefferson

Edgar Allan Poe

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Charles Dickens

Benjamin Franklin

Victor Hugo

Adam Smith

Michael Faraday

Alexandre Dumas

Moments

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