# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claude-calame
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:28:05.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/claude-calame"
name: "Claude Calame"
slug: "claude-calame"
description: "Claude Calame is a Swiss writer on Greek mythology and the structure of mythic narrative from the perspective of a Hellenist trained in semiotics and ethnology (ethnopoetics) as well as philology. He was a professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne and is now Director of Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, in Paris. He taught also at the Universities of Urbino and Siena in Italy, and at Yale University in the US."
tagline: "Swiss mythographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Claude_Calame.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.542585333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC"
    title: "Клод Калам"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "كلود كالام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "كلود كالام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Calame"
    title: "Claude Calame"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Calame"
    title: "Claude Calame"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Calame"
    title: "Claude Calame"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4"
    title: "Калам, Клод"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2977128"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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