# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lovrenc-kosir
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:38:27.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lovrenc-kosir"
name: "Lovrenc Košir"
slug: "lovrenc-kosir"
description: "Lovrenc Košir, also Laurenz Koschier was a Slovenian accountant and civil servant in the Austrian Empire, who worked in Ljubljana. He is notable as being one of the claimants to the title of the inventor of the postage stamp, besides Rowland Hill and James Chalmers. His claim was widely supported in Austria and Yugoslavia, and he was recognized as undisputed \"conceptual inventor\" of postage stamps in those two countries. Today, those claims are controversial and he is not seen as undisputed inventor any more, as there is evidence that his claims were based on misconstructions."
tagline: "Austrian civil servant (1804–1879)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lovrenc_Ko%C5%A1ir.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1804-07-29"
deathDate: "1879-08-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.49
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.668898666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovrenc_Ko%C5%A1ir"
    title: "Lovrenc Košir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "لوفرينك كوسير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovrenc_Ko%C5%A1ir"
    title: "Lovrenc Košir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovrenc_Ko%C5%A1ir"
    title: "Lovrenc Košir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%80"
    title: "Ловренц Кошир"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovrenc_Ko%C5%A1ir"
    title: "Lovrenc Košir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%80%2C_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86"
    title: "Кошир, Лоренц"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovrenc_Ko%C5%A1ir"
    title: "Lovrenc Košir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%80"
    title: "Ловренц Кошир"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112486"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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