# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/niels-hoffmeyer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:10:40.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/niels-hoffmeyer"
name: "Niels Hoffmeyer"
slug: "niels-hoffmeyer"
description: "Niels Henrik Cordulus Hoffmeyer was a Danish army officer who founded the Danish Meteorological Institute. He introduced synoptic weather maps into Denmark. They were known for sometime as Hoffmeyer maps."
tagline: "Danish meteorologist (1836-1884)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PSM_V39_D010_Niels_Henrik_Cordulus_Hoffmeyer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1836-06-03"
deathDate: "1884-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Hoffmeyer"
    title: "Niels Hoffmeyer"
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_H._Hoffmeyer"
    title: "Niels H. Hoffmeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Hoffmeyer"
    title: "Niels Hoffmeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Hoffmeyer_(meteorolog)"
    title: "Niels Hoffmeyer (meteorolog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Hoffmeyer"
    title: "Niels Hoffmeyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81"
    title: "Гофмейер, Нильс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1988994"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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