# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-heinrich-menges
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:59:55.787Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-heinrich-menges"
name: "Karl Heinrich Menges"
slug: "karl-heinrich-menges"
description: "Karl Heinrich Menges was a German linguist known for his advocacy of the Altaic hypothesis. He was a faculty member at Columbia University in New York and subsequently at the University of Vienna."
tagline: "German linguist (1908–1999)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-04-22"
deathDate: "1999-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.06369426751592
  historical:           6.539021333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Karl Heinrich Menges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "كارل هينريخ مينجيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Heinrich_Menges"
    title: "Karl Heinrich Menges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Heinrich_Menges"
    title: "Karl Heinrich Menges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Heinrich_Menges"
    title: "Karl Heinrich Menges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Heinrich_Menges"
    title: "Karl Heinrich Menges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%85"
    title: "Менгес, Карл Генрих"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4290338"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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