Who Was Alive

Were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Mary Wollstonecraft alive at the same time?

Yes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Mary Wollstonecraft were alive at the same time for 38 years, from 1759 to 1797.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 9 when Mary Wollstonecraft was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 48 when Mary Wollstonecraft died, aged 38.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

English writer and intellectual

Born 27 April 1759 · died 10 September 1797, aged 38

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  4. Mary Wollstonecraft
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Mary Wollstonecraft 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.