1300–1399
The 14th century
Whose working lives fell in the 14th 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 14th century, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
- 1
Bernard I, Margrave of Baden-Baden1364–1431 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models21 decades - 2
Otto I, Landgrave of Hesse1272–1328 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models22 decades - 3
Bolko II of Ziębice1300–1341 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models8 decades - 4
Rudolf IV, Margrave of Baden-Pforzheim1300–1348 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models21 decades - 5
Frederick III, Margrave of Baden1327–1353 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models22 decades - 6
Rudolf VI, Margrave of Baden1350–1372 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models0 decades - 7
Rudolf III, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg1343–1428 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models22 decades - 8
Rudolf II, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg1301–1352 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models22 decades - 9
Herman IX, Margrave of Baden-Eberstein1350–1353 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models0 decades - 10AIAlbert IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg1315–1343 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models22 decades
- 11
Otto I, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg1302–1384 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models22 decades - 12
Henry, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg1300–1318 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Modelsnot measured— - 13
Rudolf VII, Margrave of Baden-Baden1372–1391 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Models0 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.