Who Was Alive

Were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 16 years, from 1818 to 1834.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was 45 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 16 when Samuel Taylor Coleridge died, aged 61.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic and philosopher

Born 21 October 1772 · died 25 July 1834, aged 61

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

  1. Napoleon
  2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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.