# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/axel-michaels
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:22:46.410Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/axel-michaels"
name: "Axel Michaels"
slug: "axel-michaels"
description: "Axel Michaels is a Professor of Classical Indology and Religious Studies at Heidelberg University, former Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence \"Asia and Europe in a Global Context\" (2014-2019) and since 2014 the Director of the research project Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal. He also was the Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 619 “Ritual Dynamics” from 2002 until 2013."
tagline: "German indologist"
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country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1949-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           4.607488
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  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump