# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthias-knutzen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:55:50.316Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthias-knutzen"
name: "Matthias Knutzen"
slug: "matthias-knutzen"
description: "Matthias Knutzen was a German critic of religion and the author of three atheistic pamphlets. In modern Western history, he is the first self-professed atheist known by name. Knutzen was called \"The only person on record who openly professed and taught atheism\" in the 1789 Student's Pocket Dictionary by Thomas Mortimer."
tagline: "German atheist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1646"
deathDate: "1674"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.812528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Knutzen"
    title: "Matthias Knutzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%86"
    title: "ماثيو كنوتزن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Knutzen"
    title: "Matthias Knutzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Knutzen_(Theologe)"
    title: "Matthias Knutzen (Theologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%9A%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%84%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BD"
    title: "Ματίας Κνούτσεν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Knutzen"
    title: "Matthias Knutzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Knutzen"
    title: "Matthias Knutzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Knutzen"
    title: "Matthias Knutzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95717"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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