# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-nepomuk-maelzel
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:25:40.372Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-nepomuk-maelzel"
name: "Johann Nepomuk Maelzel"
slug: "johann-nepomuk-maelzel"
description: "Johann Nepomuk Maelzel was a German inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music-playing automatons as well as displaying the Mechanical Turk chess machine. He worked with Beethoven to compose a piece of music for one of his inventions."
tagline: "German inventor (1772–1838)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Metronom_M%C3%A4lzel_1815.jpg/330px-Metronom_M%C3%A4lzel_1815.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1772-08-15"
deathDate: "1838-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.34
  momentum:             1.5
  historical:           17.32124266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "約翰·內波穆克·梅爾策爾"
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    title: "يوهان نيبوموك مايلزل"
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    title: "Мельцель, Иоганн Непомук"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump