Who Was Alive

Were Karl Marx and Sándor Petőfi alive at the same time?

Yes. Karl Marx and Sándor Petőfi were alive at the same time, from 1823 to c. 1849.

Karl Marx was 4 when Sándor Petőfi was born.

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

Sándor Petőfi

Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary

Born 1 January 1823 · died c. 1849

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