# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/curt-nimuendaju
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:57:56.749Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/curt-nimuendaju"
name: "Curt Nimuendajú"
slug: "curt-nimuendaju"
description: "Curt Unckel Nimuendajú was a German-Brazilian ethnologist, anthropologist, and writer. His works are fundamental for the understanding of the religion and cosmology of some native Brazilian Indians, especially the Guaraní people. He received the surname \"Nimuendajú\" from the Apapocuva subgroup of the Guaraní people, meaning \"the one who made himself a home\", one year after living among them. Upon taking Brazilian citizenship in 1922, he officially added the Nimuendajú as one of his surnames. On his obituary, his Brazilian-German colleague Herbert Baldus called him \"perhaps the greatest Indianista of all time\"."
tagline: "German anthropologist (1883-1945)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Curt_Nimuendaj%C3%BA.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1883-04-17"
deathDate: "1945-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.95702133333333
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "كورت نيموينداچو"
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    title: "Curt Unckel"
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    title: "Curt Nimuendajú"
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    title: "Curt Nimuendajú"
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    title: "Curt Nimuendajú"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kurt Nimuendaju"
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    title: "Curt Nimuendajú"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump