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Cotton Mather

1663 - 1728

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Cotton Mather (; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects. After being educated at Harvard College, he joined his father Increase as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts, where he preached for the rest of his life. He has been referred to as the "first American Evangelical".A major intellectual and public figure in English-speaking colonial America, Cotton Mather helped lead the successful revolt of 1689 against Sir Edmund Andros, the governor imposed on New England by King James II. Mather's subsequent involvement in the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693, which he defended in the book Wonders of the Invisible World (1693), attracted intense controversy in his own day and has negatively affected his historical reputation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cotton Mather has received more than 1,961,964 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Cotton Mather is the 3,540th most popular writer (down from 2,956th in 2019), the 4,540th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,872nd in 2019) and the 380th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Family-religion, excited and assisted
Early works to 1800, Family, Family worship
1707
Magnalia Christi Americana
Biography, Church history, History
1702
The wonders of the invisible world
Witchcraft, Early works to 1800, History
1692
Essays to do good
Christian life, Puritan authors, Christian ethics
1808
Free-grace, maintained & improved. Or, The general offer of the Gospel
Early works to 1800, Grace (Theology), Predestination
1706
Hor-Hagidgad
American Sermons, Congregational churches, Death and burial
1727

Page views of Cotton Mathers by language

Over the past year Cotton Mather has had the most page views in the with 197,212 views, followed by German (7,587), and Russian (5,572). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Pashto (160.61%), Finnish (124.62%), and West Frisian (99.63%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cotton Mather ranks 3,540 out of 7,302. Before him are Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Françoise Giroud, Donald Barthelme, Xiao Hong, Howard Pyle, and Edwin Arnold. After him are Václav Hanka, Jien, Jovan Sterija Popović, Anna Gavalda, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, and Pavel Bazhov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1663, Cotton Mather ranks 11. Before him are Guillaume Amontons, August Hermann Francke, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Lobsang Yeshe, 5th Panchen Lama, and Luca Carlevarijs. After him are Agafya Grushetskaya, Princess Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Ogata Kenzan, António Manoel de Vilhena, and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton. Among people deceased in 1728, Cotton Mather ranks 16. Before him are William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Davit Bek, Fyodor Apraksin, and Jacob Heinrich von Flemming. After him are Ogyū Sorai, Anna Sophie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard, and William Sherard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cotton Mather ranks 4,540 out of 20,380. Before him are Jubal Early (1816), Clyde Tolson (1900), Crawford Long (1815), Nathanael Greene (1742), Donald Barthelme (1931), and Howard Pyle (1853). After him are Holly Marie Combs (1973), Augustine Washington (1694), Broderick Crawford (1911), Rikky von Opel (1947), Gertrude Käsebier (1852), and Doris Roberts (1925).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Cotton Mather ranks 380. Before him are Adrienne Rich (1929), Sara Teasdale (1884), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Donald Barthelme (1931), and Howard Pyle (1853). After him are Gene Wolfe (1931), Joss Whedon (1964), Robert W. Chambers (1865), Emma Lazarus (1849), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), and Charles Fort (1874).

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