# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pal-engel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:49:07.782Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pal-engel"
name: "Pál Engel"
slug: "pal-engel"
description: "Pál Engel was a Hungarian medievalist historian and archivist, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He served as General Director of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1996 and 1997. Engel became a preeminent medievalist despite being an autodidact historian, who had initially obtained only a degree in history and library science. He also became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "Hungarian historian (1938-2001)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-02-27"
deathDate: "2001-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.77
  momentum:             5.454545454545454
  historical:           5.269654666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Engel"
    title: "Pál Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "بال إنجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "بال انجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engel_P%C3%A1l"
    title: "Engel Pál"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Engel"
    title: "Pál Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Engel"
    title: "Pál Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q989705"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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