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1832
Whose working lives fell in 1832. 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 1832, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Mary Shelley16 decades - 2
Heinrich Heine21 decades - 3
William I, German Emperornot measured- - 4
Napoleon IInot measured- - 5
Sojourner Truth13 decades - 6
Adolphe Thiers15 decades - 7
Évariste Galois6 decades - 8
Gaetano Donizetti19 decades - 9
Hiroshigenot measured- - 10
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff14 decades - 11
Alfred de Vigny20 decades - 12
Charles Lyell21 decades - 13
Manuela Sáenz15 decades - 14
Joseph Henry22 decades - 15
Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany18 decades - 16
Paul Delaroche19 decades - 17
Friedrich August II of Saxony21 decades - 18
Jeremias Gotthelf18 decades - 19
Antonio Rosmini20 decades - 20
Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestannot measured- - 21
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel0 decades - 22
Alexander Bestuzhev17 decades - 23
Ida Laura Pfeiffer11 decades - 24
George Tupou I0 decades - 25
Ramón Castilla17 decades
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.