Báb
1819–1850
founder of Bábism and, according to the Baháʼís, predecessor of Baháʼu'lláh
writer · poet · merchant
Born in Shiraz
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Báb:
- Karl Marx (1818–1883)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
- Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)
- Mark Twain (1835–1910)
- Charles Dickens (1812–1870)