Who Was Alive

Were Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx alive at the same time?

Yes. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx were alive at the same time for 13 years, from 1818 to 1831.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was 47 when Karl Marx was born.

Karl Marx was 13 when Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel died, aged 61.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German philosopher and theologian

Born 27 August 1770 · died 14 November 1831, aged 61

Karl Marx

German-born philosopher

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

  1. Napoleon
  2. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Charles Darwin
  5. Karl Marx
  6. Leo Tolstoy
  7. Mahatma Gandhi
  8. Vladimir Lenin
  9. Albert Einstein
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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.