# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/imre-festetics
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:45.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/imre-festetics"
name: "Imre Festetics"
slug: "imre-festetics"
description: "Count Imre Festetics de Tolna, Germanized as Emmerich Festetics, was a Hungarian noble, sheep breeder, and pioneer geneticist. He is known for coining the term \"genetics\". In 1817 he exhibited a sheep breed called Mimush that he had developed through inbreeding and selection for specific characters. In 1819 he introduced the phrases künstliche Zuchtwahl and \"die genetischen Gesetze der Natur\"."
tagline: "Hungarian scientist (1764-1847)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Festetics_Imre-Oelenhainz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1764-12-02"
deathDate: "1847-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.11
  momentum:             4.510703363914374
  historical:           6.60504
  currentAttention:     9.25925925925926
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "امرے فیسٹیٹکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Imre Festetics"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Festetics"
    title: "Imre Festetics"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Festetics"
    title: "Imre Festetics"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Festetics"
    title: "Imre Festetics"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festetics_Imre"
    title: "Festetics Imre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Festetics"
    title: "Imre Festetics"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Festetics"
    title: "Imre Festetics"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1000929"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump