# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alcee-fortier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:18:31.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alcee-fortier"
name: "Alcée Fortier"
slug: "alcee-fortier"
description: "Alcée Fortier was a renowned Professor of Romance Languages at Tulane University in New Orleans. In the late 19th and early 20th century, he published numerous works on language, literature, Louisiana history and folklore, Louisiana Creole languages, and personal reminiscence. He had French Creole ancestry dating to the colonial period."
tagline: "American philologist and folklorist (1856–1914)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Photograph%2C_Alc%C3%A9e_Fortier%2C_Louisiana_State_Archives.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1856-06-05"
deathDate: "1914"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.66
  momentum:             6.066769305566812
  historical:           3.079662666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%A9e_Fortier"
    title: "Alcée Fortier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%A9e_Fortier"
    title: "Alcée Fortier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alc%C3%A9e_Fortier"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2832230"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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