# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ludwig-erk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:05:08.069Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ludwig-erk"
name: "Ludwig Erk"
slug: "ludwig-erk"
description: "Ludwig Christian Erk was a German musicologist, music teacher, academic, composer and folk-song collector."
tagline: "German musician and musicologist (1807–1883)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ludwig_Erk%2C_Komponist.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1807-01-06"
deathDate: "1883-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.9
  momentum:             6
  historical:           7.673182666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1287400"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "لودفيج ارك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Christian_Erk"
    title: "Ludwig Christian Erk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Erk"
    title: "Ludwig Erk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Erk"
    title: "Ludwig Erk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Erk"
    title: "Ludwig Erk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B3"
    title: "Эрк, Людвиг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Erk"
    title: "Ludwig Erk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/260b1f44-9dee-4b63-a3d3-f23d614eb1a7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108653"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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