# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/berthold-wolpe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:02:49.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/berthold-wolpe"
name: "Berthold Wolpe"
slug: "berthold-wolpe"
description: "Berthold Ludwig Wolpe was a German calligrapher, typographer, type designer, book designer and illustrator. He was born into a Jewish family at Offenbach near Frankfurt, emigrated to England soon after the Nazis came to power in 1935 and became a naturalized British citizen in 1947. He was made a Royal Designer for Industry in 1959, awarded an honorary doctorate by the Royal College of Art in 1968 and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1983. He died in London in 1989."
tagline: "German typographer, type designer, calligrapher and book designer (1905–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Berthold_Wolpe%2C_RIT_NandE_Vol14Num29_1982_Oct7_Complete.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1905-10-29"
deathDate: "1989-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.609504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%BE"
    title: "بيرثولد ولپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Wolpe"
    title: "Berthold Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Wolpe"
    title: "Berthold Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Wolpe"
    title: "Berthold Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Wolpe"
    title: "Berthold Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110114"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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