# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wenceslaus-johann-gustav-karsten
# Generated: 2026-08-16T07:11:27.440Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/wenceslaus-johann-gustav-karsten"
name: "Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten"
slug: "wenceslaus-johann-gustav-karsten"
description: "Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten was a German mathematician. In 1768, Karsten published a graphic representation of infinitely many logarithms of real and complex numbers. He was a professor of Mathematics at the Universities of Rostock, Bützow and Halle."
tagline: "Mathematician (1732-1787)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1732-12-15"
deathDate: "1787-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump