# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eduard-hoffmann-krayer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:05:16.415Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eduard-hoffmann-krayer"
name: "Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer"
slug: "eduard-hoffmann-krayer"
description: "Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer (1864–1936) was a Swiss folklorist, Germanist and medievalist, from 1900 professor for phonetics, Swiss dialectology and folklore at the University of Basel and founder of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde in 1896.\nHis 1902 essay Die Volkskunde als Wissenschaft received international attention."
tagline: "Swiss folklorist (1864-1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eduard_Hoffmann-Krayer.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: "1864-12-05"
deathDate: "1936-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.60252
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Hoffmann-Krayer"
    title: "Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ادوارد هوفمان كراير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Hoffmann-Krayer"
    title: "Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Hoffmann-Krayer"
    title: "Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Hoffmann-Krayer"
    title: "Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121368"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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