# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-t-koch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:24:35.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-t-koch"
name: "John T. Koch"
slug: "john-t-koch"
description: "John Thomas Koch is an American academic, historian, and linguist who specializes in Celtic studies, especially prehistory, and the early Middle Ages. He is the editor of the five-volume Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. He is perhaps best known as the leading proponent of the Celtic from the West hypothesis."
tagline: "American Celticist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.09925558312655088
  historical:           8.147985333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John T. Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Koch"
    title: "John T. Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Koch"
    title: "John T. Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Koch"
    title: "John T. Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Koch"
    title: "John T. Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%DB%8C._%DA%A9%D8%AE"
    title: "جان تی. کخ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Koch"
    title: "John T. Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Koch"
    title: "John T. Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Koch"
    title: "John T. Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Koch"
    title: "John T. Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3182558"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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