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1000–1099

The 11th century

Whose working lives fell in the 11th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.

Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 11th century, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.

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  1. 1Thietmar of MerseburgThietmar of Merseburg975–1019 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writers0 decades
  2. 2Otto of BambergOtto of Bamberg1060–1139 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writers0 decades
  3. 3AAva1060–1127 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writersnot measured—
  4. 4WOWipo of Burgundy995–1048 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writers0 decades
  5. 5Gebhard of SalzburgGebhard of Salzburg1010–1088 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writers0 decades
  6. 6BOBernold of Constance1054–1100 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writers9 decades
  7. 7FOFrutolf of Michelsbergdied 1103 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writers0 decades
  8. 8AOAlpert of Metz1000–1024 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writers0 decades
  9. 9BTBruno the Saxon1000–1083 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writers0 decades
  10. 10Gundekar II of EichstättGundekar II of Eichstätt1019–1075 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writersnot measured—
  11. 11WOWalter of Speyer967–1031 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Writers0 decades

How this is measured

  • Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
  • Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
  • Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
  • What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.