Who Was Alive

Were Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 46 years, from 1818 to 1865.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was 9 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 46 when Pierre-Joseph Proudhon died, aged 56.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist

Born 15 January 1809 · died 19 January 1865, aged 56

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

  1. Napoleon
  2. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx 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.