# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-knies
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:19.279Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-knies"
name: "Karl Knies"
slug: "karl-knies"
description: "Karl Gustav Adolf Knies was a German economist of the historical school of economics, best known as the author of Political Economy from the Standpoint of the Historical Method (1853). Knies taught at the University of Heidelberg for over 30 years, and was perhaps the most theoretically oriented economist of the older historical school."
tagline: "German economist and university lecturer (1821-1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Knies_(HeidICON_28694)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1821-03-29"
deathDate: "1898-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.160714285714286
  historical:           14.2135
  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