# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/friedrich-melchior-baron-von-grimm
# Generated: 2026-08-16T09:52:39.815Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/friedrich-melchior-baron-von-grimm"
name: "Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm"
slug: "friedrich-melchior-baron-von-grimm"
description: "Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm was a German-born French-language journalist, art critic, diplomat and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. In 1765 Grimm wrote Poème lyrique, an influential article for the Encyclopédie on lyric and opera librettos. Like Christoph Willibald Gluck and Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Grimm became interested in opera reform. According to Martin Fontius, a German literary theorist, \"sooner or later a book entitled The Aesthetic Ideas of Grimm will have to be written.\""
tagline: "German dramatist and playwright (1723-1807)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Friedrich_Melchior_von_Grimm.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1723-09-26"
deathDate: "1807-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           17.80385733333334
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump