Who Was Alive

Were François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 30 years, from 1818 to 1848.

François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand was 49 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 30 when François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand died, aged 79.

François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

French writer, politician and historian

Born 4 September 1768 · died 4 July 1848, aged 79

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

  1. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
  2. Napoleon
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 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.