# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugo-koch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:09:02.595Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugo-koch"
name: "Hugo Koch"
slug: "hugo-koch"
description: "Hugo Alexander Koch was a Dutch inventor who conceived of and patented an idea for machine encryption, the rotor machine, although he was not the first to do so. He is sometimes erroneously credited as the originator of the Enigma machine; this has been shown instead to be the work of German engineer Arthur Scherbius."
tagline: "Dutch inventor and cryptologist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1870-03-09"
deathDate: "1928-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.59
  momentum:             30.12691771269177
  historical:           8.075666666666667
  currentAttention:     1.16
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D2%91%D0%BE_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%85"
    title: "Гуґо Кох"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B4"
    title: "هوغو كوش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "هوجو كوتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Alexander_Koch"
    title: "Hugo Alexander Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Koch"
    title: "Hugo Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Koch"
    title: "Hugo Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Koch"
    title: "Hugo Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Alexander_Koch"
    title: "Hugo Alexander Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Koch_(wynalazca)"
    title: "Hugo Koch (wynalazca)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q472375"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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