# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-katz
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:33:59.641Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-katz"
name: "David Katz"
slug: "david-katz"
description: "David Katz was a German-born Swedish psychologist and educator who specialized in Gestalt psychology and phenomenology. He was a professor Emeritus at the Stockholm University. Prior to the establishment of the Nazi regime in Germany, he served as the chair of psychology and education at the State University of Mecklenburg in Rostock."
tagline: "Swedish psychologist (1884-1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Katz_(1884%E2%80%931953).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1884-10-01"
deathDate: "1953-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.20648
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Katz"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد كاتز"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Katz"
    title: "David Katz"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Katz_(Psychologe)"
    title: "David Katz (Psychologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Katz_(psychologist)"
    title: "David Katz (psychologist)"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Katz"
    title: "David Katz"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EC%9D%B4%EB%B9%84%EB%93%9C_%EC%B9%B4%EC%B8%A0"
    title: "데이비드 카츠"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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