Who Was Alive

Were Edward Gibbon and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive at the same time?

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

Edward Gibbon was 12 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 44 when Edward Gibbon died, aged 56.

Edward Gibbon

English historian and politician

Born 8 May 1737 · died 16 January 1794, aged 56

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. Edward Gibbon
  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
Edward Gibbon 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.