Who Was Alive

Were Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 36 years, from 1828 to 1865.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was 19 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 36 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

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

Born 28 August 1828 (Julian calendar) · died 7 November 1910 (Julian calendar), aged 82

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