# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-borsig
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:36:52.652Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/august-borsig"
name: "August Borsig"
slug: "august-borsig"
description: "Johann Karl Friedrich August Borsig was a German businessman who founded the Borsig-Werke factory in 1837, a railroad and steam locomotive manufacturing company. The first engine was finished in 1840 and at the time of his death in 1854 He was in a monopoly position when Borsig Werke had made 500 locomotives and 67 of the 68 new Prussian locomotives came from Borsig factories."
tagline: "German businessman, founder of Borsig-Werke (1804-1854)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-12815%2C_August_Borsig.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1804-06-23"
deathDate: "1854-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.93027866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Август Борзиг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%BA%D8%B3%D8%B7%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "أغسطس بورسيج"
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    title: "اجسطس بورسيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "August Borsig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Borsig"
    title: "August Borsig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Borsig"
    title: "August Borsig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Borsig"
    title: "August Borsig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Borsig"
    title: "August Borsig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Borsig"
    title: "August Borsig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "August Borsig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "August Borsig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Borsig"
    title: "August Borsig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Borsig"
    title: "August Borsig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B3%2C_%D0%90%D0%B2%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Borsig"
    title: "August Borsig"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump