Who Was Alive

Were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 3 years, from 1828 to 1832.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 79 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 3 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

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

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

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