18411916
18411916 is best understood as a shorthand notation for a person’s life span, written without spaces or punctuation as 1841–1916 (often rendered with an en dash as 1841–1916). In historical, genealogical, and biographical contexts, birth and death years are frequently recorded together to identify an individual and to distinguish them from others with similar names. The digits alone, 18411916, can appear in catalogs, OCR transcriptions, or data fields where the dash was omitted or lost, but the intended meaning is the interval between the year of birth and the year of death.
The notation is widely used in biographical dictionaries, encyclopedias, gravestones, library catalogs, and archival records. It
The interval from 1841 to 1916 spans a period of significant change, including industrialization, social and
As a notation rather than a subject, 18411916 does not refer to a single individual or entity