Who Was Alive

Were Leonhard Euler and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe alive at the same time?

Yes. Leonhard Euler and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were alive at the same time for 34 years, from 1749 to 1783.

Leonhard Euler was 42 when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 34 when Leonhard Euler died, aged 76.

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer

Born 15 April 1707 · died 18 September 1783, aged 76

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. Leonhard Euler
  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
Leonhard Euler 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.