Who Was Alive

Were Antoine Lavoisier and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive at the same time?

Yes. Antoine Lavoisier and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were alive at the same time for 44 years, from 1749 to 1794.

Antoine Lavoisier was 6 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 44 when Antoine Lavoisier died, aged 50.

Antoine Lavoisier

French nobleman and chemist

Born 26 August 1743 · died 8 May 1794, aged 50

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

Born 28 August 1749 · died 22 March 1832, aged 82

  1. George Washington
  2. Antoine Lavoisier
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Antoine Lavoisier and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.