Who Was Alive

Were E. T. A. Hoffmann and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. E. T. A. Hoffmann and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 3 or 4 years, from 1818 to 1822.

E. T. A. Hoffmann was 42 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 3 or 4 when E. T. A. Hoffmann died, aged 45 or 46.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

German writer

Born 24 January 1776 · died 1822, aged 45 or 46

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

  1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Napoleon
  3. E. T. A. Hoffmann
  4. Abraham Lincoln
  5. Charles Darwin
  6. Karl Marx
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
E. T. A. Hoffmann 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.