# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-w-hummel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:34:56.330Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-w-hummel"
name: "Arthur W. Hummel"
slug: "arthur-w-hummel"
description: "Arthur William Hummel Sr. was an American Christian missionary to China, head of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, noted sinologist, and editor of Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period, a biographical dictionary. He was the first president of the Association for Asian Studies, in 1948. Hummel's son, Arthur W. Hummel Jr., was a career diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to China."
tagline: "American sinologist and missionary (1884-1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_W_Hummel_Sr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1884-03-06"
deathDate: "1975-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.341397333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%81%92%E6%85%95%E4%B9%89"
    title: "恒慕义"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "آرثر دبليو. هامل سينيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_W._Hummel_senior"
    title: "Arthur W. Hummel senior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_W._Hummel_Sr."
    title: "Arthur W. Hummel Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_W._Hummel_Sr."
    title: "Arthur W. Hummel Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_W._Hummel%2C_Sr."
    title: "Arthur W. Hummel, Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_William_Hummel_sr."
    title: "Arthur William Hummel sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4570035"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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