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1833
Whose working lives fell in 1833. 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 1833, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Giacomo Leopardi22 decades - 2
Auguste Comte22 decades - 3
Eugène Delacroix20 decades - 4
Pedro I of Brazil0 decades - 5
Adam Mickiewicz12 decades - 6
Kaspar Hauser19 decades - 7
Charles Albert of Sardinia18 decades - 8
Jules Michelet15 decades - 9
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben6 decades - 10
Alexander Gorchakov11 decades - 11
Massimo d'Azeglio19 decades - 12
Utagawa Kuniyoshi0 decades - 13
Abigail Fillmore0 decades - 14
František Palacký0 decades - 15
Princess Maria Carolina, Duchess of Berry0 decades - 16
Charles Wilkes22 decades - 17
Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius0 decades - 18
Dionysios Solomos0 decades - 19
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke0 decades - 20
Jules Armand Dufaure2 decades - 21
Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russianot measured- - 22
Mirabeau B. Lamar6 decades - 23
Thomas Hodgkin18 decades - 24
Franz Ernst Neumann1 decades - 25
Josiah Warren5 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.