Who Was Alive

Were François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand and Leo Tolstoy alive at the same time?

Yes. François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand and Leo Tolstoy were alive at the same time for 19 years, from 1828 to 1848.

François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand was 60 when Leo Tolstoy was born.

Leo Tolstoy was 19 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

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

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

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