WRITER

Matthew Henry

1662 - 1714

Photo of Matthew Henry

Icon of person Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry (18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714) was a British Nonconformist minister and author who was born in Wales but spent much of his life in England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthew Henry has received more than 813,749 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Matthew Henry is the 4,893rd most popular writer (up from 5,005th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Total Car Care CD-ROM
2004
The communicant's companion
Lord's Supper, English, Prayer-books and devotions
1700
Matthaei Parisiensis, Monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora
2018
A method for prayer
Prayer, Prayers, Prayer, christianity
1710
Directions for daily communion with God
Addresses, essays, lectures, Christian life, Christianity
1717
The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible
2015

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Matthew Henry ranks 4,893 out of 7,302. Before him are Imants Ziedonis, Susan Blackmore, Robert Charles Wilson, Dmytro Pavlychko, Alexander Abusch, and Fedir Bohatyrchuk. After him are George Moore, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Henry of Huntingdon, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, and Ignacio Manuel Altamirano.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1662, Matthew Henry ranks 15. Before him are Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, Jan Frans van Bloemen, Balaji Vishwanath, Sebastiano Mocenigo, and Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him is Richard Bentley. Among people deceased in 1714, Matthew Henry ranks 17. Before him are Carlo Fontana, Vasily Golitsyn, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, Gottfried Arnold, Kaibara Ekken, and Prince Frederick William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him is Edmund Andros.

Others Born in 1662

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1714

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous