# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kelemen-mikes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:15:38.931Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kelemen-mikes"
name: "Kelemen Mikes"
slug: "kelemen-mikes"
description: "Kelemen Mikes (1690–1761) was a Transylvanian-born Hungarian political figure and essayist, noted for his rebellious activities against the Habsburg monarchy. Mikes is referred to as the \"Hungarian Goethe\", made famous by his Letters from Turkey. With these, Mikes laid the foundations of Hungarian literary prose, and he is regarded as one of the first Hungarian prose authors."
tagline: "Hungarian essayist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mikes_Kelemen_olajk%C3%A9p.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1690"
deathDate: "1761-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.25
  momentum:             2.773343538158758
  historical:           15.34442133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Kelemen Mikes"
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    title: "Kelemen Mikes"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump