Who Was Alive

Were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 13 years, from 1818 to 1832.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 68 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 13 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died, aged 82.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

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

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.