# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elek-benedek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:53:48.340Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elek-benedek"
name: "Elek Benedek"
slug: "elek-benedek"
description: "Benedek Elek was a Hungarian journalist and writer, widely known as \"The Great Folk-Tale Teller\" of The \"Szekely Hungarian\" Fairy-Tales."
tagline: "Hungarian writer (1859–1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benedek_Elek_c.1920.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1859-09-30"
deathDate: "1929-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.26
  momentum:             7.142857142857143
  historical:           12.53884133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "إلك بينديك"
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    title: "اليك بينيديك"
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    title: "Έλεκ Μπένεντεκ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elek_Benedek"
    title: "Elek Benedek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elek_Benedek"
    title: "Elek Benedek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%A9"
    title: "الک بندک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elek_Benedek"
    title: "Elek Benedek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedek_Elek_(%C3%ADr%C3%B3)"
    title: "Benedek Elek (író)"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elek_Benedek"
    title: "Elek Benedek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ელეკ ბენედეკი"
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    title: "Elek Benedek"
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    title: "Бенедек, Элек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elek_Benedek"
    title: "Elek Benedek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benedek_Elek"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q521014"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump