Who Was Alive

Were Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive at the same time?

Yes. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were alive at the same time for 38 years, from 1749 to 1788.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was 41 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 38 when Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon died, aged 80.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

French natural historian

Born 7 September 1707 · died 15 April 1788, aged 80

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

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

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  3. George Washington
  4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 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.