Who Was Alive

Were Napoleon and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon alive at the same time?

Yes. Napoleon and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon were alive at the same time for 12 years, from 1809 to 1821.

Napoleon was 39 when Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was born.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was 12 when Napoleon died, aged 51.

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

Born 15 August 1769 · died 5 May 1821, aged 51

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist

Born 15 January 1809 · died 19 January 1865, aged 56

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