In short, both Cox (and here team) and Buzan (along with Keene) have, independently, determined or arrived at the conclusion that German polymath Johann Goethe (the core theory developer among the 500+ Hmoledia biographies) is likely to have been the smartest person to have ever lived.
Cox's 200-range Geniuses (1926) of 300-geniuses Buzan's 200-range Geniuses (1994) of 100-geniuses 1. Goethe (IQ=210)
1. Da Vinci (IQ=220)
2. Leibnitz (IQ=205)
2. Goethe (IQ=215)
3. Grotius (IQ=200)
3. Shakespeare (IQ=210)
4. Wolsey (IQ=200)
4. Einstein (IQ=205)
English chess grandmaster Raymond Keene (1948-); co-author of the 1994 Buzan Book of Genius.[2]Slightly modified table of IQs from their 2005 book Buzan’s Book of Mental World Records. [3] |