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1834
Whose working lives fell in 1834. 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 1834, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Alexander Pushkin21 decades - 2
Honoré de Balzac17 decades - 3
Mary Anning5 decades - 4
Oscar I of Sweden0 decades - 5
Karl Bryullov11 decades - 6
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derbynot measured- - 7
Amos Bronson Alcott2 decades - 8
Anna Atkins0 decades - 9
Dred Scott18 decades - 10
Charles II, Duke of Parma0 decades - 11
Gustav, Prince of Vasanot measured- - 12
Rodolphe Töpffer6 decades - 13
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron0 decades - 14
Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségurnot measured- - 15
Thomas Hood22 decades - 16
Fromental Halévy4 decades - 17
Almeida Garrett0 decades - 18
Manuel Bulnes21 decades - 19
Husein Gradaščevićnot measured- - 20
René Caillié19 decades - 21
Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal4 decades - 22
Ignaz von Döllinger12 decades - 23
James Prinsep8 decades - 24
Duchess Amelia of Württemberg0 decades - 25
Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgiumnot 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.