# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-penka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:49:13.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-penka"
name: "Karl Penka"
slug: "karl-penka"
description: "Karl Penka was an Austrian philologist and anthropologist. Known for his now-outdated theories locating the Proto-Indo-European homeland in Northern Europe, Penka has been described as \"a transitional figure between Aryanism and Nordicism\"."
tagline: "Austrian philologist and anthropologist (1847-1912), a transitional figure between Aryanism and Nordicism"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1847-10-26"
deathDate: "1912-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.074838666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Penka"
    title: "Karl Penka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "كارل پينكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Penka"
    title: "Karl Penka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Penka"
    title: "Karl Penka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Penka"
    title: "Karl Penka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Penka"
    title: "Karl Penka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Penka"
    title: "Karl Penka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Penka"
    title: "Karl Penka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Пенка, Карл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113761"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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