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Isaac Watts

1674 - 1748

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Isaac Watts (17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748) was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns. His works include "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", "Joy to the World", and "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaac Watts has received more than 811,901 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Isaac Watts is the 4,344th most popular writer (down from 4,045th in 2019), the 3,210th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,019th in 2019) and the 370th most popular British Writer.

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  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Isaac Watts ranks 4,344 out of 5,755. Before him are Mirjam Pressler, Kamala Surayya, Vittorio Messori, Chaim Potok, John Mawe, and Richard Steele. After him are Manuel Bandeira, César Aira, Dimitrija Demeter, Jenő Rejtő, Franciszek Karpiński, and Jonathan Carroll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1674, Isaac Watts ranks 11. Before him are Jeremiah Clarke, Ibrahim Muteferrika, Marie of Lorraine, Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, and Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. After him is Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend. Among people deceased in 1748, Isaac Watts ranks 15. Before him are Ebrahim Afshar, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, William Kent, Aleksei Chirikov, and Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun. After him are Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, James Thomson, and William Adam.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Isaac Watts ranks 3,210 out of 7,765. Before him are William Hallowes Miller (1801), Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (1893), Bert Jansch (1943), Hywel Dda (880), John Mawe (1764), and Jimmie Nicol (1939). After him are Pat Jennings (1945), John Callen (1946), Tobias Menzies (1974), Charlie Cox (1982), Cliff Allison (1932), and Dominic Cooper (1978).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Isaac Watts ranks 370. Before him are Alan Bennett (1934), Thomas Middleton (1580), Stephen Baxter (1957), Amelia Edwards (1831), Bob Shaw (1931), and John Mawe (1764). After him are Walter Savage Landor (1775), Edwin Atherstone (1788), Anne Bradstreet (1612), Jackie Collins (1937), Joan Aiken (1924), and A. E. Housman (1859).

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