# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-johann-freudenberg
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:37:55.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-johann-freudenberg"
name: "Karl Johann Freudenberg"
slug: "karl-johann-freudenberg"
description: "Karl Johann Freudenberg was a German chemist who did early seminal work on the absolute configurations to carbohydrates, terpenes, and steroids, and on the structure of cellulose and other polysaccharides, and on the nature, structure, and biosynthesis of lignin. The Research Institute for the Chemistry of Wood and Polysaccharides at the University of Heidelberg was created for him in the mid to late 1930s, and he led this until 1969."
tagline: "German chemist (1886-1983)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1886-01-29"
deathDate: "1983-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             7.076802507836992
  historical:           6.337617333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "كارل جوهان فرودنبرج"
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    title: "Καρλ Φράιντενμπεργκ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump