# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-brun
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:00:32.710Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-brun"
name: "Herbert Brün"
slug: "herbert-brun"
description: "Herbert Brün was a composer and cybernetician. Born in Berlin, Germany, he taught at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1962 until he retired several years before his death. He was a pioneer of electronic and computer music, incorporating ideas from cybernetics into his work."
tagline: "German composer (1918–2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Photo_of_Herbert_Brun_Reading.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1918-07-09"
deathDate: "2000-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.805364
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1736855/"
    handle:    "nm1736855"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.herbertbrun.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/207396"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "هيربيرت برون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Br%C3%BCn"
    title: "Herbert Brün"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Br%C3%BCn"
    title: "Herbert Brün"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Br%C3%BCn"
    title: "Herbert Brün"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Br%C3%BCn"
    title: "Herbert Brün"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/45bab196-4c21-4c8f-8ad6-7fa0b1036bab"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105715"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3282868"
    title: "Herbert Brün"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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