Who Was Alive

Were Mikhail Lomonosov and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive at the same time?

Yes. Mikhail Lomonosov and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were alive at the same time for 15 years, from 1749 to 1765.

Mikhail Lomonosov was 37 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 15 when Mikhail Lomonosov died, aged 53.

Mikhail Lomonosov

Russian polymath

Born 8 November 1711 (Julian calendar) · died 4 April 1765 (Julian calendar), aged 53

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

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

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach
  3. Mikhail Lomonosov
  4. George Washington
  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  7. Napoleon
  8. Abraham Lincoln
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Mikhail Lomonosov and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.