1700–1799
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
- 1
Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff1699–1753 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architects5 decades - 2
Cosmas Damian Asam1686–1739 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architects10 decades - 3DZDominikus Zimmermann1685–1766 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architects9 decades
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George Bähr1666–1738 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architects4 decades - 5
Johann Conrad Schlaun1695–1773 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architects7 decades - 6
Johann Michael Fischer1692–1766 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architects9 decades - 7
Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach1693–1742 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architects5 decades - 8
Szymon Bogumił Zug1733–1807 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architects0 decades - 9
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Carl von Gontard1731–1791 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 10
João Frederico Ludovice1670–1752 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 11
Joseph Effner1687–1745 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architects6 decades - 12
Richard Cassels1690–1751 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 13
Gottfried Schädel1680–1752 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 14
Johann Joseph Couven1701–1763 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 15MVMaximilian von Welsch1671–1745 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
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Simon Louis du Ry1726–1799 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 17
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Lambert Krahe1712–1790 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 18
Friedrich Joachim Stengel1694–1787 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 19
Joachim Daniel von Jauch1688–1754 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 20
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Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach1687–1769 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 21
François de Cuvilliés the Younger1731–1777 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 22CFCarl Friedrich Meerwein1737–1810 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
- 23JGJohann Gottfried Büring1723–1788 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
- 24MPMichael Philipp Daniel Boumann1747–1803 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
- 25EDElias David Häusser1687–1745 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
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Johann Caspar Bagnato1696–1757 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 27CFCarl Frederick Pöppelmann1697–1750 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
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Peter Joseph Krahe1758–1840 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 29
Johann Christian Wentzinger1710–1797 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 30
Joseph Christian Lillie1760–1827 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 31JGJohann George Schmidt1707–1774 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
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Carl Theodor Severin1763–1836 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 33
Alessandro Galli da Bibbiena1686–1748 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 34LMLaurenz Mefferdatis1677–1748 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
- 35MPMaurizio Pedetti1719–1799 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
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Girolamo Sartorio1700–1707 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 37GHGottfried Heinrich Krohne1703–1756 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
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Georg David Anthon1714–1781 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured— - 39JFJohann Friedrich Knöbel1724–1792 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
- 40JLJoachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt1678–1753 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
- 41JAJohann August Arens1757–1806 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
- 42JGJohann Georg Maximilian Fürstenhoff1686–1753 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
- 43JGJohann Gottfried Rosenberg1709–1776 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
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Johann Georg Specht1721–1803 · 🇩🇪 Germany · Architectsnot measured—
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.