Who Was Alive

Were Edmund Burke and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive at the same time?

Yes. Edmund Burke and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were alive at the same time for 47 years, from 1749 to 1797.

Edmund Burke was 20 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 47 when Edmund Burke died, aged 68.

Edmund Burke

Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher

Born 12 January 1729 · died 9 July 1797, aged 68

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

Born 28 August 1749 · died 22 March 1832, aged 82

  1. Edmund Burke
  2. George Washington
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Edmund Burke and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.