# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dagmar-schafer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:03:57.217Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dagmar-schafer"
name: "Dagmar Schäfer"
slug: "dagmar-schafer"
description: "Dagmar Schäfer is a German sinologist and historian of science. She is director of Department III, Artifacts, Action, Knowledge at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. She is honorary professor for the history of technology, Technische Universität Berlin; adjunct professor, Institute of Sinology, Freie Universität, Berlin, and Tianjin University (2018–2021). She was previously a guest professor at the school of history and culture of science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She was also the director of the Centre for Chinese Studies and held the professorial chair of Chinese studies at the University of Manchester."
tagline: "German professor"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1968-05-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.874802666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/users/dschaefer"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_Sch%C3%A4fer"
    title: "Dagmar Schäfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_Sch%C3%A4fer"
    title: "Dagmar Schäfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_Sch%C3%A4fer"
    title: "Dagmar Schäfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_Sch%C3%A4fer"
    title: "Dagmar Schäfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%A4%EA%B7%B8%EB%A7%88_%EC%84%80%ED%8D%BC"
    title: "다그마 섀퍼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_Sch%C3%A4fer"
    title: "Dagmar Schäfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19502138"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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