# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ludwig-ingwer-nommensen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:42:53.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ludwig-ingwer-nommensen"
name: "Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen"
slug: "ludwig-ingwer-nommensen"
description: "Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen was a German Lutheran missionary to Batak lands, North Sumatra. He also translated the New Testament into the native Batak language and the first Ephorus (bishop) of Batak Christian Protestant Church. He is commemorated as a missionary on 7 November in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church with John Christian Frederick Heyer and Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg."
tagline: "German missionary (1834-1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ingwer_Ludwig_Nommensen_(1834%E2%80%931918).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1834"
deathDate: "1918"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.36
  momentum:             3.328409650418513
  historical:           8.030785333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "لودويج اينجوير نومينسين"
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    title: "Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen"
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    title: "Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump