# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-maria-kertbeny
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:11:50.744Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-maria-kertbeny"
name: "Karl-Maria Kertbeny"
slug: "karl-maria-kertbeny"
description: "Karl Maria Kertbeny, born German: Karl Maria Benkert, German: [ˈbɛŋkɐt]; also Hungarian: Kertbeny Károly, Kertbeny Károly Mária, (eredetileg) Benkert Károly Mária; 28 February 1824 – 23 January 1882) was an Austrian-born Hungarian journalist, translator, memoirist and human rights campaigner. Kertbeny coined the words heterosexual and homosexual as the German nouns Heterosexualität and Homosexualität."
tagline: "Austro-Hungarian writer, journalist, translator and bibliographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kertbeny_Karl_Maria_(1824-1882).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1824-02-28"
deathDate: "1882-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.11
  momentum:             1.279953243717125
  historical:           18.86948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Karl Maria Kertbeny"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump