# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/betty-heimann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:32:15.113Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/betty-heimann"
name: "Betty Heimann"
slug: "betty-heimann"
description: "Betty Heimann was the first woman Indologist to habilitate in Germany. After the Nazis banned Jews from holding academic positions in Germany in 1933, she taught at the University of London and became a British citizen. After the end of World War II she founded the Department of Indian Philosophy and Sanskrit at the University of Ceylon."
tagline: "British German indologist (1888-1961)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Betty_Heimann_died_1961.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1888-03-29"
deathDate: "1961-05-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.38123167155425
  historical:           5.937113333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "بيتى هايمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump