# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/s-ren-hjorth
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:56:08.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/s-ren-hjorth"
name: "Søren Hjorth"
slug: "s-ren-hjorth"
description: "Søren Hjorth was a Danish railway pioneer and inventor. Before Werner von Siemens, he discovered the dynamo-electric principle in 1854 and received the first patent for a self-excited dynamo."
tagline: "Danish engineer (1801–1870)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/S%C3%B8ren_Hjorth_by_H.P._Hansen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1801-10-13"
deathDate: "1870-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.002592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Søren Hjorth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سورن هيورث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Hjorth"
    title: "Søren Hjorth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Hjorth"
    title: "Søren Hjorth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Hjorth"
    title: "Søren Hjorth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Hjorth"
    title: "Søren Hjorth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Hjorth"
    title: "Søren Hjorth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Hjorth"
    title: "Søren Hjorth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723875"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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