# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-potthast
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:07:39.538Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/august-potthast"
name: "August Potthast"
slug: "august-potthast"
description: "August Potthast, was a German historian, was born at Höxter, and was educated at Paderborn, Münster and Berlin."
tagline: "German historian (1824–1898)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1824-08-13"
deathDate: "1898-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.39
  momentum:             6
  historical:           5.669114666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Potthast"
    title: "August Potthast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Potthast"
    title: "August Potthast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Potthast"
    title: "August Potthast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Potthast"
    title: "August Potthast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Potthast"
    title: "August Potthast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Potthast"
    title: "August Potthast"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87516"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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