← Fame through time1600-1699
The 17th century
Whose working lives fell in the 17th 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 17th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Johannes Kepler18 decades - 2
Jakob Böhme22 decades - 3
Athanasius Kircher21 decades - 4
Paul Gerhardt20 decades - 5
Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kasselnot measured-
- 6
Johann Gerhard22 decades - 7
Jakob Thomasius0 decades - 8
Erhard Weigel20 decades - 9
Hermann Conring22 decades - 10
Johannes Cocceius0 decades - 11
Georg Calixtus0 decades - 12
Otto Mencke0 decades - 13
Johann Faulhaber1 decades - 14Johann Andreas Eisenmenger2 decades
- 15
Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff9 decades - 16
Benedikt Carpzovnot measured- - 17
Johann Zahn0 decades
- 18
Gaspar Schott4 decades - 19
Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbachnot measured- - 20
Johannes Clauberg0 decades - 21
Joseph Furttenbach5 decades - 22
Georg Christoph Eimmart0 decades - 23Johann Georg Gichtel0 decades
- 24Johann Michael Vanslebnot measured-
- 25
Abraham Scultetus6 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.