# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-karl-christoph-nachtigal
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:17:27.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-karl-christoph-nachtigal"
name: "Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal"
slug: "johann-karl-christoph-nachtigal"
description: "Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal was a German Protestant theologian and philologist. His best-known publication is Peter the Goatherd; the folk tale became the model for Washington Irving's first short story Rip Van Winkle."
tagline: "German writer and theologian"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Otmar_Volcks-Sagen.pdf/page1-330px-Otmar_Volcks-Sagen.pdf.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1753-02-25"
deathDate: "1819-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.73
  momentum:             1.395348837209302
  historical:           4.803528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81_%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "چوهان كارل كريستوف ناتشتيجال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Karl_Christoph_Nachtigal"
    title: "Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Karl_Christoph_Nachtigal"
    title: "Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Karl_Christoph_Nachtigal"
    title: "Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Karl_Christoph_Nachtigal"
    title: "Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107275"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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