← 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.
- 1Johann Pachelbel9 decades
- 2
Dieterich Buxtehude1 decades - 3
Heinrich Schütz20 decades - 4
Michael Praetorius15 decades - 5
Joachim Neander14 decades - 6
Johann Joseph Fux9 decades - 7
Johann Ambrosius Bach0 decades - 8
Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kasselnot measured- - 9
Samuel Scheidt15 decades - 10Georg Böhm17 decades
- 11
Johann Hermann Schein10 decades - 12
Johann Crüger10 decades - 13
Georg Muffat0 decades - 14Andreas Werckmeister6 decades
- 15
Johann Michael Bach I2 decades - 16Johann Rosenmüller5 decades
- 17
Johann Kaspar Kerllnot measured- - 18
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow3 decades - 19
Andreas Hammerschmidt10 decades - 20Matthias Weckmann7 decades
- 21
John Adolphus I of Saxe-Weissenfels0 decades - 22Johann Krieger4 decades
- 23Melchior Franck12 decades
- 24Johannes Bach2 decades
- 25Christoph Bach17 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.