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1848
Whose working lives fell in 1848. 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 1848, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Richard Wagner19 decades - 2
Emily Brontë14 decades - 3
Søren Kierkegaard3 decades - 4
Giuseppe Verdi18 decades - 5
David Livingstone17 decades - 6
Claude Bernard21 decades - 7
John Snow21 decades - 8
Stephen A. Douglas18 decades - 9
Henry Ward Beecher17 decades - 10
Friedrich Hebbel18 decades - 11
Branwell Brontë1 decades - 12
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš0 decades - 13
Charles-Valentin Alkan0 decades - 14
Agostino Depretis16 decades - 15
Henry Bessemer4 decades - 16
Juan Pablo Duarte0 decades - 17
Alexander Dargomyzhsky5 decades - 18
Ludwig Leichhardt0 decades - 19
Ivar Aasen0 decades - 20
Nikolay Ogarev11 decades - 21
John C. Frémont12 decades - 22
John Sedgwick15 decades - 23
Franz Miklosich0 decades - 24
Auguste Maquet18 decades - 25
Baron Alexander von Bach0 decades - 26
Theophil Hansen4 decades - 27
Frédéric Ozanam17 decades - 28
Adolph Kolping5 decades - 29
Louis Lucien Bonaparte6 decades - 30
Josephine of Baden0 decades - 31
Pōmare IVnot measured- - 32
Radhanath Sikdarnot measured- - 33
J. Marion Simsnot measured- - 34
Horace Wellsnot measured- - 35
James Dwight Dana8 decades - 36
John Raenot measured- - 37
Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavarianot measured- - 38
Jørgen Moe0 decades - 39
David Dixon Porternot measured- - 40
Isaac Pitman18 decades - 41
Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburgnot measured- - 42
Camilla Collett0 decades - 43
Timofey Granovskynot measured- - 44
Gennady Nevelskoynot measured- - 45
Georges Darboynot measured- - 46
Félix María Zuloaganot measured- - 47
József Eötvös0 decades - 48
Louis Veuillotnot measured- - 49
Franz Delitzsch18 decades - 50
Manuel Antonio Sanclementenot measured- - 51
Montgomery Blairnot measured- - 52
Félix Ravaisson-Molliennot measured- - 53
Prince Alexander of the Netherlandsnot measured- - 54
Rajendra of Nepalnot measured- - 55
Stephen Hellernot measured- - 56
Narciso Camperonot measured- - 57
Semen Hulak-Artemovskynot measured- - 58Karl von Hegelnot measured-
- 59
Muhammad III as-Sadiqnot measured- - 60
Vladimir Sollogubnot measured- - 61Alexander Parkesnot measured-
- 62
Matthias Alexander Castrén0 decades - 63
John L. O'Sullivannot measured- - 64Pierre Wantzelnot measured-
- 65
George Peter Alexander Healynot measured- - 66
Allen G. Thurmannot measured- - 67
James Strangnot measured- - 68
Antonio García Gutiérreznot measured- - 69
Zachariah Chandlernot measured- - 70
Oscar Gustave Rejlandernot measured- - 71
Prince August of Württembergnot measured- - 72
Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettaunot measured- - 73
August Belmontnot measured- - 74
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters0 decades - 75
Otto Ludwig21 decades - 76
Nicholas Benoisnot measured- - 77
Junius Spencer Morgannot measured- - 78
Charles Blancnot measured- - 79
Irineu Evangelista de Sousanot measured- - 80
Pierre Alphonse Laurentnot measured- - 81
Joseph Gliddennot measured- - 82
Julius Friedländernot measured- - 83
Isaac Buttnot measured- - 84
Sándor Rózsanot measured- - 85
Persida Nenadovićnot measured- - 86
Frederick Scott Archernot measured- - 87
Louise-Victorine Ackermannnot measured- - 88
Josef Grollnot measured- - 89
Gerardo Barriosnot measured- - 90
Pavel Annenkovnot measured- - 91
Otto Jahnnot measured- - 92
Charles Jacquenot measured- - 93
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Tayenot measured- - 94
Gaëtan de Rochebouëtnot measured- - 95
William Benjamin Carpenternot measured- - 96
John Cassinnot measured- - 97
Samuel J. Kirkwoodnot measured- - 98
Lot M. Morrillnot measured- - 99
Giovanni Luppisnot measured- - 100
Évariste Régis Hucnot 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.