← Fame through time1500-1599
The 16th century
Whose working lives fell in the 16th 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 16th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Balthasar Hubmaier16 decades - 2
Anton Praetorius0 decades - 3
Andreas Osiander20 decades - 4
Johann von Staupitz0 decades - 5
Melchior Hoffman19 decades - 6
George Spalatin0 decades - 7
Zacharias Ursinus10 decades - 8
Wolfgang Capito0 decades - 9
Nicolaus von Amsdorf0 decades - 10
Johannes Buxtorf0 decades - 11Bernhard Rothmann0 decades
- 12
Johannes Mathesius13 decades - 13
Urbanus Rhegius0 decades - 14Hans Denck13 decades
- 15
Paul Fagius9 decades - 16
George Cassander0 decades - 17Erasmus Alberus20 decades
- 18
Matthäus Zell4 decades - 19
Julius von Pflug0 decades - 20
Hans Glasernot measured- - 21
Hendrik van Zutphennot measured- - 22
Simon Grynaeus18 decades - 23Johann Crotus0 decades
- 24
Amandus Polanus von Polansdorfnot measured- - 25
Petrus Mosellanus0 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.