← Fame through time1800-1899
The 19th century
Whose names filled the books of the 19th century - anyone at all, however long dead - counted as mentions per million words printed, so a period that simply published more does not inflate anyone.
Talked about then
Whose names appeared most in Chinese books during the 19th century, whenever they lived.
- 1
Zhu Xi870 - 2
Li Hongzhang149 - 3
Zhang Zhidong86 - 4
Zuo Zongtang43 - 5
Ban Gu40 - 6
Ge Hong40 - 7Chen Shou14
- 8
Mao Zedong12 - 9
Lu Xun11
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 19th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Christian Doppler8 decades - 2
Carl Menger14 decades - 3
Svetozar Boroevićnot measured- - 4
Friedrich von Wieser8 decades - 5
Alexius Meinong7 decades - 6
Heinrich Lammaschnot measured- - 7Christian von Ehrenfelsnot measured-
- 8
Eugen Ehrlichnot measured- - 9
Georg Alexander Pick4 decades - 10
Felix von Luschannot measured- - 11
Josef Strzygowskinot measured- - 12
Josef Popper-Lynkeusnot measured- - 13
Franz Mertensnot measured- - 14
Wilhelm Jerusalemnot measured- - 15Friedrich Salomon Kraussnot measured-
- 16
Moriz Winternitznot measured- - 17
Josef Szombathynot measured- - 18
Alfred von Domaszewskinot measured- - 19
Gabriel Antonnot measured- - 20
Wilhelm Exnernot measured- - 21
Johann Bergernot measured- - 22
Sigmund Exnernot measured- - 23
Max Freiherr von Waldbergnot measured- - 24
Moritz Benediktnot measured- - 25Karl Grobbennot measured-
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.