# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emil-forrer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:20:49.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emil-forrer"
name: "Emil Forrer"
slug: "emil-forrer"
description: "Emil Orgetorix Gustav Forrer was a Swiss Assyriologist and pioneering Hittitologist. He was the first to point out the relevance of references to Wilusa in Hittite inscriptions to the accounts of the Trojan War in the epics of Homer."
tagline: "Swiss linguist (1894-1986)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1894-02-19"
deathDate: "1986-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.541073333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Emil Forrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "اميل فورير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Forrer"
    title: "Emil Forrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%88%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BB_%CE%A6%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%81"
    title: "Έμιλ Φόρερ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Forrer"
    title: "Emil Forrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%AC_%D5%96%D5%B8%D6%80%D6%80%D5%A5%D6%80"
    title: "Էմիլ Ֆորրեր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "エミール・フォラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Forrer"
    title: "Emil Forrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Forrer"
    title: "Emil Forrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Форрер, Эмиль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125010"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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