Who Was Alive

Were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Germaine de Staël alive at the same time?

Yes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Germaine de Staël were alive at the same time for 51 years, from 1766 to 1817.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 16 when Germaine de Staël was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 67 when Germaine de Staël died, aged 51.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

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

Germaine de Staël

Genevan-French author

Born 22 April 1766 · died 14 July 1817, aged 51

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Germaine de Staël
  4. Napoleon
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Leo Tolstoy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Germaine de Staël 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.