Who Was Alive

Were Caspar David Friedrich and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. Caspar David Friedrich and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 11 years, from 1828 to 1840.

Caspar David Friedrich was 54 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 11 when Caspar David Friedrich died, aged 65.

Caspar David Friedrich

German Romantic landscape painter

Born 5 September 1774 · died 7 May 1840, aged 65

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born 28 August 1828 (Julian calendar) · died 7 November 1910 (Julian calendar), aged 82

  1. Napoleon
  2. Caspar David Friedrich
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Adolf Hitler
Caspar David Friedrich and Leo Tolstoy 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.