Who Was Alive

Were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Jane Austen alive at the same time?

Yes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Jane Austen were alive at the same time for 41 years, from 1775 to 1817.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 26 when Jane Austen was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 67 when Jane Austen died, aged 41.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

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

Jane Austen

Author, novelist, writer

Born 16 December 1775 · died 18 July 1817, aged 41

  1. George Washington
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Napoleon
  4. Jane Austen
  5. Abraham Lincoln
  6. Charles Darwin
  7. Karl Marx
  8. Leo Tolstoy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Jane Austen 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.