# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-friedrich-kustner
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:21:32.355Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-friedrich-kustner"
name: "Karl Friedrich Küstner"
slug: "karl-friedrich-kustner"
description: "Karl Friedrich Küstner was a German astronomer who also made contributions to Geodesy. In 1888, he reportedly discovered the Polar motion of the Earth. In 1910, he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for cataloguing stars and detecting latitude variation."
tagline: "German astronomer (1856–1936)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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birthDate: "1856"
deathDate: "1936-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump