# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karlheinz-brandenburg
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:11:17.609Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karlheinz-brandenburg"
name: "Karlheinz Brandenburg"
slug: "karlheinz-brandenburg"
description: "Karlheinz Brandenburg is a German electrical engineer and mathematician. Together with Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser, Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp, he developed the widespread MP3 method for audio data compression. He is also known for his elementary work in the field of audio coding, perception measurement, wave field synthesis and psychoacoustics. Brandenburg has received numerous national and international research awards, prizes and honors for his work. Since 2000 he has been a professor of electronic media technology at the Technical University Ilmenau. Brandenburg was significantly involved in the founding of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) and currently serves as its director."
tagline: "German audio engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2025-03-27_Event%2C_Leipziger_Buchmesse_und_Manga-Comic-Con_2025_STP_1663_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1954-06-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump