# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/celsus-q315370
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:26:14.433Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/celsus-q315370"
name: "Celsus"
slug: "celsus-q315370"
description: "Celsus was a 2nd-century Greek philosopher and opponent of early Christianity. His literary work The True Word survives exclusively via quotations in Contra Celsum, a refutation written in 248 by Origen of Alexandria. The True Word is the earliest known comprehensive criticism of Christianity and Judaism."
tagline: "2nd-century Greek philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bust_philosopher_Louvre_Ma544.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "200"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.14336266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump