# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-balthasar-konig
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:34:06.177Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-balthasar-konig"
name: "Johann Balthasar König"
slug: "johann-balthasar-konig"
description: "Johann Balthasar König was a German Baroque composer, especially of hymn melodies, having published a hymnal with 1,913 melodies. He was the church musician at Frankfurt's main Protestant church, the Katharinenkirche, and the town's Kapellmeister. He was also closely associated with Georg Philipp Telemann."
tagline: "German composer and church musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frankfurt_Katharinenkirche_1683.jpg?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: "1691"
deathDate: "1758"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.72
  momentum:             3.263009845288326
  historical:           5.270122666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Balthasar_K%C3%B6nig"
    title: "Johann Balthasar König"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "چوهان بالثاسار كونيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Balthasar_K%C3%B6nig"
    title: "Johann Balthasar König"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Balthasar_K%C3%B6nig"
    title: "Johann Balthasar König"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Balthasar_K%C3%B6nig"
    title: "Johann Balthasar König"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Balthasar_K%C3%B6nig"
    title: "Johann Balthasar König"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120943"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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