1600–1699
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
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Johann Reinhold von Patkul1660–1707 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers0 decades - 2
Georg Stiernhielm1598–1672 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers0 decades
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Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck1639–1688 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers0 decades - 4
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Johannes Bureus1568–1652 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers0 decades - 5
Evert Horn1585–1615 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers0 decades - 6
Sofia Elisabet Weber1659–1730 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
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Lucidor1638–1674 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers10 decades - 8LWLars Wivallius1605–1669 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers0 decades
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Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld1655–1727 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured— - 10
Johannes Messenius1579–1636 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers0 decades - 11
Amalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck1663–1740 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured— - 12
Virgilio Malvezzi1595–1654 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers20 decades - 13
Agneta Horn1629–1672 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured— - 14AJArnold Johan Messenius1608–1651 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers0 decades
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Johan Oxenstierna1612–1657 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured— - 16
Bengt Gottfried Forselius1660–1688 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers0 decades - 17
Paul Wirtz1612–1676 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers0 decades - 18PPPeter Petreius1570–1622 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
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Anna Åkerhjelm1642–1698 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured— - 20
Olaus Verelius1618–1682 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured— - 21
Gunno Dahlstierna1661–1709 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writers0 decades - 22
Bengt Oxenstierna1591–1643 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured— - 23
Nils Turesson Bielke1569–1639 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
- 24CSCatharina Stopiadied 1657 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
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Philip von Krusenstiern1597–1676 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured— - 26
Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Forth1573–1651 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured— - 27
Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie1661–1708 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured— - 28SCSamuel Columbus1642–1679 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
- 29MVMauritz Vellingk1651–1727 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
- 30EMEva Margareta Frölich1650–1692 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
- 31RBReiner Brockmann1609–1647 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
- 32SBSkogekär Bergbo1619–1684 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
- 33THThomas Hiärne1638–1678 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
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Christoph Karl von Schlippenbach1624–1660 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured— - 35ESEricus Schroderus1609–1639 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
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Karl Gustafson Banér1598–1632 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · Writersnot measured—
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.