# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustav-koerner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:52:29.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gustav-koerner"
name: "Gustav Koerner"
slug: "gustav-koerner"
description: "Gustav Philipp Koerner, also spelled Gustave or Gustavus Koerner, was a German-American revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, judge and statesman in Illinois and Germany, and a Colonel of the U.S. Army who was a confessed enemy of slavery. He married on 17 June 1836 in Belleville Sophia Dorothea Engelmann ; they had 9 children. He belonged to the co-founders and was one of the first members of the Grand Old Party, and was a close confidant of Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd, and had an essential role in his nomination and election for president in 1860."
tagline: "German American politician, lawyer, judge, and diplomat (1809-1896)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Koerner-gustave.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1809-11-20"
deathDate: "1896-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.21
  momentum:             3.394833948339484
  historical:           5.279734666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.gustavekoerner.org"
sources:
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "قوستاو کورنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%81_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "غوستاف كورنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوستاف كورنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "گستاو کورنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_K%C3%B6rner"
    title: "Gustav Körner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Koerner"
    title: "Gustav Koerner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214481"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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