Who Was Alive

Were Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive at the same time?

Yes. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were alive at the same time for 54 years, from 1749 to 1804.

Immanuel Kant was 25 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 54 when Immanuel Kant died, aged 79.

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

Born 22 April 1724 · died 12 February 1804, aged 79

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. Immanuel Kant
  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
Immanuel Kant 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.