Who Was Alive

Were Alphonse de Lamartine and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. Alphonse de Lamartine and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 50 years, from 1818 to 1869.

Alphonse de Lamartine was 27 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 50 when Alphonse de Lamartine died, aged 78.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman

Born 21 October 1790 · died 28 February 1869, aged 78

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

Born 5 May 1818 · died 14 March 1883, aged 64

  1. Napoleon
  2. Alphonse de Lamartine
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
Alphonse de Lamartine and Karl Marx in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.