# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-a-foucher
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:37:47.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-a-foucher"
name: "Alfred A. Foucher"
slug: "alfred-a-foucher"
description: "Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher (1865–1952), was a French scholar, who argued that the Buddha image has Greek origins. He has been called the \"father of Gandhara studies\", and is a much-cited scholar on ancient Buddhism in northwest Indian subcontinent and the Hindu Kush region."
tagline: "French archaeologist (1865-1952)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1865-11-21"
deathDate: "1952-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.210548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E5%8B%92%E5%BC%97%E8%8E%B1%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E7%A6%8F%E8%88%8D"
    title: "阿勒弗莱德·福舍"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%89._%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "الفريد اى. فوتشير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Charles_Auguste_Foucher"
    title: "Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%B1"
    title: "آلفرد فوشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Foucher"
    title: "Alfred Foucher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7"
    title: "アルフレッド・フーシェ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredus_Foucher"
    title: "Alfredus Foucher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_A._Foucher"
    title: "Alfred A. Foucher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1227551"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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