# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-george-nicolay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:04:06.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-george-nicolay"
name: "John George Nicolay"
slug: "john-george-nicolay"
description: "John George Nicolay was a German-born American author and diplomat who served as private secretary to U.S. president Abraham Lincoln and later, with John Hay, co-authored Abraham Lincoln: A History, a ten-volume biography of the 16th president. He was a member of the German branch of the Nicolay family."
tagline: "German-American civil servant and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_George_Nicolay_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1832-02-26"
deathDate: "1901-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.41
  momentum:             13.19231634133329
  historical:           5.724554666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_Nicolay"
    title: "John George Nicolay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "جون جورج نيكولاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "جون جورج نيكولاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_Nicolay"
    title: "John George Nicolay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_Nicolay"
    title: "John George Nicolay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_Nicolay"
    title: "John George Nicolay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321072"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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