# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-ferdinand-degen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:32:16.133Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-ferdinand-degen"
name: "Karl Ferdinand Degen"
slug: "karl-ferdinand-degen"
description: "Carl Ferdinand Degen was a Danish mathematician. His most important contributions were within number theory and he advised the young, aspiring Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel in a decisive way. Degen has received much of the credit for the introduction of more modern and advanced mathematics in the Danish-Norwegian school system."
tagline: "Danish mathematician (1766-1825)"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1766-11-01"
deathDate: "1825-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.802016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Carl Ferdinand Degen"
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.F._Degen"
    title: "C.F. Degen"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ferdinand_Degen"
    title: "Carl Ferdinand Degen"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ferdinand_Degen"
    title: "Carl Ferdinand Degen"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ferdinand_Degen"
    title: "Carl Ferdinand Degen"
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  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ferdinand_Degen"
    title: "Karl Ferdinand Degen"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ferdinand_Degen"
    title: "Carl Ferdinand Degen"
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    title: "Carl Ferdinand Degen"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4993582"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump