# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-von-terzaghi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:14:21.234Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-von-terzaghi"
name: "Karl von Terzaghi"
slug: "karl-von-terzaghi"
description: "Karl von Terzaghi was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the \"father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering\"."
tagline: "Austrian geotechnical engineer known as the \"father of soil mechanics\" (1883–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KT_1926.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1883-10-02"
deathDate: "1963-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             5.245890873973925
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump