# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-karl-august-musaus
# Generated: 2026-08-16T09:09:24.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-karl-august-musaus"
name: "Johann Karl August Musäus"
slug: "johann-karl-august-musaus"
description: "Johann Karl August Musäus was a German author. He was one of the first collectors of German folk stories, most celebrated for his Volksmärchen der Deutschen (1782–1787), a collection of German fairy tales retold as satires."
tagline: "German writer (1735-1787)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portret_van_Johann_Carl_August_Mus%C3%A4us%2C_RP-P-1999-688_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1735-03-29"
deathDate: "1787-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.10327866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump