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1823
Whose working lives fell in 1823. 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 1823, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Lord Byron22 decades - 2
Arthur Schopenhauer20 decades - 3
Robert Peel22 decades - 4
Joseph von Eichendorff15 decades - 5
Augustin-Jean Fresnel15 decades - 6
Ranavalona I0 decades - 7
Carlos de Borbón y Borbón-Parma14 decades - 8
Mikhail Lazarev12 decades - 9
Friedrich Rückert22 decades - 10
Margaret Taylor11 decades - 11
Rafael Urdaneta21 decades - 12
Princess Augusta Amalia of Bavaria0 decades - 13
Johan Christian Dahl0 decades - 14
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglannot measured- - 15
Étienne Cabet3 decades - 16
Princess Wilhelmine of Baden0 decades - 17
Jean-Victor Poncelet0 decades - 18
Archduke Rudolf of Austria14 decades - 19
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen0 decades - 20
David d'Angers19 decades - 21
Sarah Goodridge0 decades - 22
Francisco Balagtasnot measured- - 23Muhammad ibn Thaninot measured-
- 24
Adoniram Judsonnot measured- - 25
Geert Adriaans Boomgaardnot measured-
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. 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. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.