# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adeline-rittershaus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:20:30.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adeline-rittershaus"
name: "Adeline Rittershaus"
slug: "adeline-rittershaus"
description: "Adeline Rittershaus was a German philologist, a scholar in old Scandinavian literature, and champion for the equality of women. She earned her doctorate in 1898, at the University of Zurich, being one of the first women to do so at that institution, and acquired in 1902, as the first woman, a Venia legendi at the Faculty of Arts of the same university. Her most famous work is a collection of Icelandic folk tales."
tagline: "German philologist, Germanist, champion for the equality of women (1876–1924)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/(UAZ)_AB.1.0800_Rittershaus.tif?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1867-07-29"
deathDate: "1924-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.97
  momentum:             3.013698630136986
  historical:           4.136753333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeline_Rittershaus"
    title: "Adeline Rittershaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeline_Rittershaus"
    title: "Adeline Rittershaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeline_Rittershaus"
    title: "Adeline Rittershaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeline_Rittershaus"
    title: "Adeline Rittershaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355177"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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