# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josef-menges
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:12:20.410Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josef-menges"
name: "Josef Menges"
slug: "josef-menges"
description: "Jakob Josef Menges was a German explorer, naturalist, zoologist, cartographer, trader and author. During the 1870s and until the end of the 19th century, Menges undertook commercial and scientific expeditions in Northeast Africa and the Horn of Africa."
tagline: "German animal trader and trapper (1850-1910)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josef_Menges_(1895).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1850"
deathDate: "1910-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.18
  momentum:             4.285714285714284
  historical:           5.002808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Menges"
    title: "Josef Menges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Menges"
    title: "Josef Menges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Menges"
    title: "Josef Menges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Menges"
    title: "Josef Menges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Josef_Menges"
    title: "Jakob Josef Menges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58856232"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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