# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kong-te-cheng
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:52:08.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kong-te-cheng"
name: "Kong Te-cheng"
slug: "kong-te-cheng"
description: "Kong Te-cheng was a 77th generation descendant of Confucius in the main line of descent. He was the final person to be appointed Duke Yansheng and the first Sacrificial Official to Confucius. He helped formulate and was in charge of officiating the modern Confucius ceremony held annually in the Republic of China (Taiwan). In addition to Ceremonial Official, he held numerous posts in the Republic of China government, including member of the National Assembly from 1946 to 1991, President of the Examination Yuan from 1984 to 1993, and senior advisor to the President of the Republic of China from 1948 to 2000. He held professorships at National Taiwan University, Fu Jen Catholic University, and Soochow University."
tagline: "Ceremonial Official to Confucius (1920–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E5%AD%94%E5%BE%B7%E6%88%90%E8%88%87%E5%BC%B5%E5%A4%A7%E5%8D%83%E5%90%88%E7%85%A7_(%E5%B1%80%E9%83%A8).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-02-23"
deathDate: "2008-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.235434666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%94%E5%BE%B7%E6%88%90"
    title: "孔德成"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong_Decheng"
    title: "Kong Decheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Te-cheng"
    title: "Kung Te-cheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Te-cheng"
    title: "Kung Te-cheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%94%E5%BE%B3%E6%88%90"
    title: "孔徳成"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BF%B5%EB%8D%94%EC%B2%AD"
    title: "쿵더청"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh%E1%BB%95ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c_Th%C3%A0nh"
    title: "Khổng Đức Thành"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%94%E5%BE%B7%E6%88%90"
    title: "孔德成"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%94%E5%BE%B7%E6%88%90"
    title: "孔德成"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q698846"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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