# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herman-potocnik
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:39:34.703Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herman-potocnik"
name: "Herman Potočnik"
slug: "herman-potocnik"
description: "Herman Potočnik was an Austrian officer, electrical engineer and astronautics theorist. He is regarded as a pioneer and visionary of modern space flight and is remembered mainly for his work concerning the long-term human habitation of space."
tagline: "Slovenian inventor (1892-1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herman_Potocnik_Noordung.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1892-12-22"
deathDate: "1929-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump