# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-august-senff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:21:55.911Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-august-senff"
name: "Karl August Senff"
slug: "karl-august-senff"
description: "Karl August Senff was a Baltic German painter, engraver and teacher. He is best known for his etchings of famous German and Baltic German military figures in service to the Imperial Russian Army. He served as professor of drawing at the Imperial University of Dorpat from its reopening in 1802 until his death in 1838 where he trained some of Estonia's most celebrated artists."
tagline: "Baltic German painter (1770-1838)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_August_Senff_1808.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1770-03-12"
deathDate: "1838-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.26
  momentum:             0.9183673469387756
  historical:           7.670518666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Карл Август Зенфф"
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    title: "Καρλ Άουγκουστ Ζενφ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karl August Senff"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_August_Senff"
    title: "Karl August Senff"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_August_Senff"
    title: "Karl August Senff"
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    title: "Կարլ Ավգուստ Զենֆ"
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    title: "Kārlis Augusts Zenfs"
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    title: "Зенфф, Карл Август"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump