# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melchior-hoffmann
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:23:41.119Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melchior-hoffmann"
name: "Melchior Hoffmann"
slug: "melchior-hoffmann"
description: "Georg Melchior Hoffmann was a Baroque composer who was influential as the leader at the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig. Some of his compositions have been mistaken for those of Johann Sebastian Bach."
tagline: "German composer, educator"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Traversa_part_of_Melchior_Hoffmann%27s_1707_magnificat.jpg/330px-Traversa_part_of_Melchior_Hoffmann%27s_1707_magnificat.jpg"
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: "1679"
deathDate: "1715-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.34
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.804392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3c0e34cd-0008-4747-9451-617a22d2d070"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Hoffmann"
    title: "Melchior Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ميلكيور هوفمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Hoffmann"
    title: "Melchior Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Hoffmann_(composer)"
    title: "Melchior Hoffmann (composer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Hoffmann"
    title: "Melchior Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%92%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%95%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "メルヒオール・ホフマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Hoffmann"
    title: "Melchior Hoffmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q896098"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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