# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrei-oisteanu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:54:37.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrei-oisteanu"
name: "Andrei Oișteanu"
slug: "andrei-oisteanu"
description: "Andrei Oișteanu is a Romanian historian of religions and mentalities, ethnologist, cultural anthropologist, literary critic and novelist. Specialized in the history of religions and mentalities, he is also noted for his investigation of rituals and magic and his work in Jewish studies and the history of antisemitism. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he also became noted for his articles and essays on the Holocaust in Romania."
tagline: "Romanian academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AndreiOi%C5%9Fteanu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-09-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.737797333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Андрей Ойштяну"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "أندريه أوشتينو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اندرى اويشتاينو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Oi%C8%99teanu"
    title: "Andrei Oișteanu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Oi%C8%99teanu"
    title: "Andrei Oișteanu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Oi%C8%99teanu"
    title: "Andrei Oișteanu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%95"
    title: "אנדריי אוישטיאנו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Անդրեյ Օյշտեանու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Oi%C8%99teanu"
    title: "Andrei Oișteanu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B9%D1%88%D1%82%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%83%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Ойштяну, Андрей Михайлович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q502362"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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