Who Was Alive

Were Alphonse de Lamartine and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. Alphonse de Lamartine and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 40 years, from 1828 to 1869.

Alphonse de Lamartine was 37 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 40 when Alphonse de Lamartine died, aged 78.

Alphonse de Lamartine

French author, poet and statesman

Born 21 October 1790 · died 28 February 1869, aged 78

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

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

  1. Napoleon
  2. Alphonse de Lamartine
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Vladimir Lenin
  8. Albert Einstein
  9. Adolf Hitler
Alphonse de Lamartine 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.