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1856
Whose working lives fell in 1856. 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 1856, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Fyodor Dostoevsky17 decades - 2
Charles Baudelaire17 decades - 3
Harriet Tubman9 decades - 4
Gustave Flaubert17 decades - 5
Nikolay Nekrasov13 decades - 6
Richard Francis Burton2 decades - 7
Rudolf Virchow16 decades - 8
Hermann von Helmholtz14 decades - 9
Elizabeth Blackwell17 decades - 10
Mary Baker Eddy13 decades - 11
Lola Montez18 decades - 12
Bartolomé Mitre20 decades - 13
Nathan Bedford Forrest10 decades - 14
Pafnuty Chebyshev4 decades - 15
Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria19 decades - 16
Louis Vuitton4 decades - 17
John Abbottnot measured- - 18
Arthur Cayley4 decades - 19
Dalai Lama 11 Khedrub Gyatsonot measured- - 20
Charles Tupper15 decades - 21
Ford Madox Brown15 decades - 22
Henri-Frédéric Amiel10 decades - 23
Pauline Viardot18 decades - 24
Gabriel García Morenonot measured- - 25
Apollon Maykov16 decades - 26
Auguste Mariette11 decades - 27
Heinrich Barth17 decades - 28
Heungseon Daewongun0 decades - 29
August Schleicher17 decades - 30
John C. Breckinridge17 decades - 31
Clara Barton15 decades - 32
Sebastian Kneipp8 decades - 33
James Longstreet15 decades - 34
Henry Thomas Buckle6 decades - 35
Vasile Alecsandri5 decades - 36
Cyprian Norwid0 decades - 37
Albert, 4th duc de Broglie18 decades - 38
Tuone Udainanot measured- - 39
Samuel Baker20 decades - 40
Karel Havlíček Borovský0 decades - 41
Jane Wilde0 decades - 42
Rachel Félix0 decades - 43
Leon Pinsker0 decades - 44
Giovanni Bottesini11 decades - 45
Marcus Goldmannot measured- - 46
William Henry Vanderbiltnot measured- - 47
Old Tom Morrisnot measured- - 48
Mikhail Petrashevskynot measured- - 49
Aleksey Pisemsky9 decades - 50
Ferdinand Gregorovius17 decades - 51
Nino Bixionot measured- - 52
Daniel Harvey Hillnot measured- - 53
Antonio Ciserinot measured- - 54
Charles Francis Hall1 decades - 55
Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippenot measured- - 56
Ion C. Brătianu0 decades - 57
Princess Katharina of Württembergnot measured- - 58
Henriëtte Ronner-Knipnot measured- - 59
Ernst Engelnot measured- - 60
Giuseppe Saracco16 decades - 61
Johann Josef Loschmidtnot measured- - 62
Robert O'Hara Burkenot measured- - 63Joseph Déjacquenot measured-
- 64
Alexander Gardnernot measured- - 65
Félix Ziem4 decades - 66
Eduard Heine2 decades - 67
Georgi Rakovskinot measured- - 68
James S. Whitenot measured- - 69
Franz Dopplernot measured- - 70
Napoleon Saronynot measured- - 71
Joseph Noel Patonnot measured- - 72
Infanta Isabel Fernandina of Spainnot measured- - 73
Francis Preston Blair Jr.not measured- - 74
Octave Feuillet17 decades - 75
Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburgnot measured- - 76
Yang Xiuqingnot measured- - 77
Champfleurynot measured- - 78
Robert Seldon Duncansonnot measured- - 79
Juan María Santamaría Rodrígueznot measured- - 80
Charles of Mount Argusnot measured- - 81
Eugenio Barsantinot measured- - 82
John Chivingtonnot measured- - 83
Wilhelm Tempel0 decades - 84
Benjamin Tyler Henrynot measured- - 85Mary Burnsnot measured-
- 86
Lafayette McLawsnot measured- - 87
William Palmernot measured- - 88
Juan Bautista Topetenot measured- - 89
Friedrich Engelhornnot measured- - 90
Amalie Dietrich7 decades - 91
Victor Guérinnot measured- - 92
Gustavus Woodson Smithnot measured- - 93
Leopold III, Prince of Lippenot measured- - 94
Henri Alexis Brialmontnot measured- - 95
Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet16 decades - 96
Arthur Saint-Léonnot measured- - 97
Edmund Pettusnot measured- - 98
Emilio Arrietanot measured- - 99
Philipp Ludwig von Seidel0 decades - 100
George Bowennot 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.