# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/piet-hein
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:05:42.517Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/piet-hein"
name: "Piet Hein"
slug: "piet-hein"
description: "Piet Hein was a Danish polymath, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, meaning \"tombstone\". His short poems, known as gruks or grooks, first started to appear in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German occupation of Denmark in April 1940 under the pseudonym \"Kumbel Kumbell\". He also invented the Soma cube and the board game Hex."
tagline: "20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet (1905–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Piet_Hein_and_H.C._Andersen_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1905-12-16"
deathDate: "1996-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.675924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1283239"
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    url:       "http://www.piethein.com/page/piet-hein-16/"
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    title: "Discogs"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump