# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andreas-huyssen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:42:58.604Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andreas-huyssen"
name: "Andreas Huyssen"
slug: "andreas-huyssen"
description: "Andreas Huyssen is a German-born American literary theorist who is the Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he taught beginning in 1986. He is the founding director of the university's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and one of the founding editors of the New German Critique."
tagline: "German academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HuyssenA-18-7118_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.682254666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Andreas Huyssen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Huyssen"
    title: "Andreas Huyssen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Huyssen"
    title: "Andreas Huyssen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Huyssen"
    title: "Andreas Huyssen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Huyssen"
    title: "Andreas Huyssen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Huyssen"
    title: "Andreas Huyssen"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4755464"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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