# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franc-serafin-metelko
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:40:26.568Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franc-serafin-metelko"
name: "Franc Serafin Metelko"
slug: "franc-serafin-metelko"
description: "Franc Serafin Metelko, also known as Fran Metelko was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, author, and philologist, best known for his proposal of a new script for the Slovene called the Metelko alphabet, which was meant to replace the traditional Bohorič alphabet, used since the late sixteenth century."
tagline: "Slovenian priest, writer and philologist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Metelcica_valentin_stanic_1828_cesar_in_opat.jpg/330px-Metelcica_valentin_stanic_1828_cesar_in_opat.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1789-07-14"
deathDate: "1860-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.54
  momentum:             3.20754716981132
  historical:           5.069186666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Франц Серафин Метелко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "فرانك سيرافين ميتيلكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franc_Serafin_Metelko"
    title: "Franc Serafin Metelko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franc_Serafin_Metelko"
    title: "Franc Serafin Metelko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franc_Metelko"
    title: "Franc Metelko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franc_Serafin_Metelko"
    title: "Franc Serafin Metelko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2550686"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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