Who Was Alive

Were Napoleon and Caspar David Friedrich alive at the same time?

Yes. Napoleon and Caspar David Friedrich were alive at the same time for 46 years, from 1774 to 1821.

Napoleon was 5 when Caspar David Friedrich was born.

Caspar David Friedrich was 46 when Napoleon died, aged 51.

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

Born 15 August 1769 · died 5 May 1821, aged 51

Caspar David Friedrich

German Romantic landscape painter

Born 5 September 1774 · died 7 May 1840, aged 65

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Napoleon
  4. Caspar David Friedrich
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Leo Tolstoy
Napoleon and Caspar David Friedrich 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.