# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-gutzlaff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:34:39.265Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-gutzlaff"
name: "Karl Gützlaff"
slug: "karl-gutzlaff"
description: "Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, anglicised as Charles Gutzlaff, was a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, notable as one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and the first Lutheran missionary to China (1831-1848). He was a colorful \"swashbuckling Pomeranian\" who combined his prodigious talent as a prolific Christian author and linguist with participation in the illegal opium trade in 1830s China. He was one of the first Protestant missionaries in China to dress in Chinese clothing and was said to be so proficient in Chinese language and culture that he could pass as Chinese. His books were widely read and his adaptation to Chinese culture served as a model for the later work of missionary Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission. In recognition of his travels, often illegal by Chinese law, up and down the Chinese coast, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1839. Controversial during his life, Gützlaff has continued to be so for historians."
tagline: "German missionary in China (1803-1851)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Friedrich_August_Gutzlaff.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1803-07-08"
deathDate: "1851-08-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9254498714652957
  historical:           17.13092666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump