← Fame through time1700-1799
The 18th century
Whose working lives fell in the 18th century. 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 the 18th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Johann Gottlieb Fichte22 decades - 2
Adam Weishaupt18 decades - 3
Moses Mendelssohn22 decades - 4
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi22 decades - 5
Johann Georg Hamann21 decades - 6Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten11 decades
- 7
Hermann Samuel Reimarus20 decades - 8
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner15 decades - 9
Thomas Abbt22 decades - 10
Johann Salomo Semler10 decades - 11
Anton Friedrich Büsching9 decades - 12
Johannes Nikolaus Tetens0 decades - 13
Christoph Meiners11 decades - 14
Johann Samuel König0 decades - 15
Johann Jakob Griesbach0 decades - 16
Johann Franz Buddeus3 decades - 17
Johann Albert Fabricius12 decades - 18
Johann Peter Süssmilch5 decades - 19
Lorenz Christoph Mizler3 decades - 20Alexander Macknot measured-
- 21
Johann Matthias Gesner0 decades - 22Johann Heinrich Gottlob Justi5 decades
- 23
Johann Tobias Mayer4 decades - 24
Jacob Friedrich von Abel0 decades - 25
Christian August Crusius8 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. 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.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.