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1837
Whose working lives fell in 1837. 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 1837, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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Victor Hugo22 decades - 2
Alexandre Dumasnot measured- - 3
Georg Büchner17 decades - 4
Lajos Kossuth7 decades - 5
Pavel Nakhimov11 decades - 6
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria0 decades - 7
Harriet Martineau19 decades - 8
Miguel I of Portugal0 decades - 9
Mariano José de Larra19 decades - 10
Elias Lönnrot0 decades - 11
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac16 decades - 12
Charles Wheatstone19 decades - 13
Nikolaus Lenau19 decades - 14
Dorothea Dix13 decades - 15
János Bolyainot measured- - 16
Dalai Lama 10 Tsultrim Gyatsonot measured- - 17
Edwin Landseer20 decades - 18
Niccolò Tommaseo20 decades - 19
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire14 decades - 20
Lydia Maria Child16 decades - 21
Alcide d'Orbigny0 decades - 22
Mariano Arista19 decades - 23
Carl Ritter von Gheganot measured- - 24
Frederick William, Elector of Hessenot measured- - 25
Ignacy Domeyko18 decades - 26
Charlotte Napoléone Bonapartenot measured- - 27
Gideon Wellesnot measured- - 28
Letitia Elizabeth Landon2 decades - 29
Émile de Girardin19 decades - 30
Heinrich Gustav Magnus0 decades - 31
Germain Henri Hessnot measured- - 32
Charles Auguste de Bériot0 decades - 33
Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman0 decades - 34
Arnold Ruge19 decades - 35
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg1 decades - 36
Chand Kaurnot measured- - 37
Robert Chambersnot measured- - 38
Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtensteinnot measured- - 39
Manuel María Lombardininot measured- - 40
Jean-Gabriel Perboyrenot measured- - 41
Antoine Jérôme Balard0 decades - 42
Félix Dupanloupnot measured- - 43
Sara Coleridgenot measured- - 44
Adolphe Nielnot measured- - 45Mahmud al-Alusinot measured-
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Andrei Stackenschneidernot measured- - 47
Casimir Lefaucheuxnot measured- - 48
Johann Moritz Rugendasnot measured- - 49
Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoymnot measured- - 50
Johann Friedrich von Brandt0 decades - 51
Cesare Pugninot measured- - 52
Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of Thurn and Taxisnot measured- - 53
Henri Herznot measured- - 54
Alexander Kasimovich Kazembeknot measured- - 55
Paul-Émile Botta0 decades - 56
Princess Maria Luisa Carlota of Parmanot measured- - 57
Alexander Dukhnovichnot measured- - 58
Alexander Odoevskynot measured- - 59
Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württembergnot measured- - 60
Friedrich Julius Stahlnot measured- - 61
Gheorghe Bibescunot measured- - 62
Elijah Parish Lovejoynot measured- - 63
Ion Heliade Rădulescu0 decades - 64
James Busbynot measured- - 65
Józef Bohdan Zaleskinot measured- - 66
Hermann Goldschmidtnot measured- - 67
Leopold Fitzinger1 decades - 68
Karl Joseph Simrocknot measured- - 69
Jacob van Lennepnot measured- - 70
David Octavius Hillnot measured- - 71
Miguel de San Románnot measured- - 72
François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnaunot measured- - 73
Constantin Guysnot measured- - 74
Dimitrios Voulgarisnot measured- - 75
Nils Ericsonnot measured- - 76
Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanovernot measured- - 77
Adolphe Nourritnot measured- - 78
Benjamin Fitzpatricknot measured- - 79
Isaac R. Trimblenot measured- - 80
Pedro de Aycinena y Piñolnot measured- - 81
Louis Niedermeyernot measured- - 82
Marianna Marquesa Florenzinot measured- - 83
Jean-Charles Cornaynot measured- - 84
Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Greynot measured- - 85
Benoît Fourneyronnot measured- - 86
Phineas Quimbynot measured- - 87
Théodore Gudinnot measured- - 88
Marcus Whitmannot measured- - 89
Joseph-Hippolyte Guibertnot measured- - 90
Jean-Daniel Colladonnot measured- - 91
Gustave de Beaumontnot measured- - 92
Ira Harrisnot measured- - 93
George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlislenot measured- - 94
Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaqnot measured- - 95
Catharine Parr Traillnot measured- - 96
Hugh Millernot measured- - 97
Ernst Friedrich Zwirnernot measured- - 98
Gerardus Johannes Muldernot measured- - 99
Michael Seymournot measured- - 100
Vincenza Maria Poloninot 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.