# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-vincent-theodore-spies
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:02:32.740Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/august-vincent-theodore-spies"
name: "August Vincent Theodore Spies"
slug: "august-vincent-theodore-spies"
description: "August Vincent Theodore Spies was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor. One of the most prominent German-speaking anarchists in America during the decade of the 1880s, Spies was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder following a bomb attack on police in an event remembered as the Haymarket affair. Spies was one of four who were executed in the aftermath of this event."
tagline: "American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor (1855-1887)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/August-Spies-1886.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1855-12-10"
deathDate: "1887-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.55
  momentum:             1.376146788990826
  historical:           14.72264666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "August Spies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "August Spies"
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    title: "August Spies"
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    title: "August Spies"
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    title: "August Spies"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump