# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-xaver-kappus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:07:27.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-xaver-kappus"
name: "Franz Xaver Kappus"
slug: "franz-xaver-kappus"
description: "Franz Xaver Kappus was an Austrian military officer, journalist, editor and writer who wrote poetry, short-stories, novels and screenplays. Kappus is known chiefly as the military academy cadet who wrote to Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) for advice in a series of letters from 1902 to 1908 that were assembled and published in the best-selling book Letters to a Young Poet (1929)."
tagline: "Austrian military officer, journalist, editor and writer (1883–1966)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1883-05-17"
deathDate: "1966-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.01
  momentum:             3.407089209488301
  historical:           8.178945333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2009910/"
    handle:    "nm2009910"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1064858"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2_%D8%B2%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانز زاڤير كاپوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Kappus"
    title: "Franz Xaver Kappus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Kappus"
    title: "Franz Xaver Kappus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Kappus"
    title: "Franz Xaver Kappus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Kappus"
    title: "Franz Xaver Kappus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Kappus"
    title: "Franz Xaver Kappus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Kappus"
    title: "Franz Xaver Kappus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Kappus"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96688"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2556579"
    title: "Franz Xaver Kappus"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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