# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-ludwig-grotefend
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:44:06.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-ludwig-grotefend"
name: "Karl Ludwig Grotefend"
slug: "karl-ludwig-grotefend"
description: "Carl Ludwig Grotefend was a German epigraphist, philologist and numismatist. He played a key role in the decipherment of the Indian Kharoshthi script on the coinage of the Indo-Greek kings, around the same time as James Prinsep, publishing Die unbekannte Schrift der Baktrischen Münzen in 1836. He was the son of the famous philologist Georg Friedrich Grotefend, who made the first successful attempts at deciphering Old Persian cuneiform."
tagline: "German regional historian and archivist (1807–1874)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Grotefend_Hannover_1866.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1807-11-22"
deathDate: "1874-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.26
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.802412
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "کارل لوڈوگ گروٹفینڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل لودفيج جروتفيند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Grotefend"
    title: "Karl Ludwig Grotefend"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ludwig_Grotefend"
    title: "Carl Ludwig Grotefend"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Grotefend"
    title: "Karl Ludwig Grotefend"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Grotefend"
    title: "Karl Ludwig Grotefend"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B3"
    title: "Гротефенд, Карл Людвиг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Grotefend"
    title: "Karl Ludwig Grotefend"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100286"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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